单词 | trawl |
释义 | trawl (trôl) n. 1. A trawl net. 2. See setline. 3. a. An act of trawling, as for fish. b. An act of searching for or examining something: A trawl of local records produced some leads. v. trawled, trawl·ing, trawls v.tr. 1. To catch (fish) with a trawl. 2. To fish (an area) with a trawl. 3. a. To search (an area) or go to (different places) in search of something: trawled the shops for a bargain. b. To make an examination of something: trawled the archives for a manuscript. v.intr. 1. To fish with a trawl. 2. To troll. 3. a. To search for or try to acquire something: a contractor trawling for day laborers. b. To make an examination of something: trawling through a writer's papers. [Possibly Middle English trawelle, perhaps from Middle Dutch tragel, dragnet, possibly from Latin trāgula, from trahere, to drag. V. tr., sense 3a, and v. intr., sense 2, influenced by TROLL1.] |
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