trawln.
/trɔːl/, U.S. /trɔl/, /trɑl/ I. Senses relating to dragging with or as with a net.
1. A strong net or bag dragged along the bottom of fishing-banks; a dragnet; = trawl-net n. 1; esp. that now often distinguished as the beam-trawl, described in its modern form in quot. 18801. Also applied to a similar smaller dragnet used for the scientific investigation of the sea-bottom, dredging for deep-sea organisms, etc.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > drag-net
dray-netc1000
pullc1303
draw-net1386
dredge1471
drag1481
dragneta1542
train1576
tug-net1584
trainel1585
draught-net1630
trawl-net1697
trail1711
trawl1759
trail-net1820
pole trawl1836
train net1864
otter trawlc1870
turn-net1883
pair trawl1967
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 192 My lorde Rekened with his netter and he had sent home to stoke a dragge of viij fadam ye fadam xij d... Item a trawelle (?) of vij fadam, the Fadam vj d.]
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 120 Tho' the Method of using Trawls, which of late Years has prevailed, is no small Diminution of their Plenty, it being found by Experience to destroy the Spawn.
1764 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 419 The Animal..was taken in a trawl in 72 fathoms water.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 125/2 The trawl-net scrapes along the ground; and as the flat fish breed in the channel, it appears that much injury and destruction has been done to the young fry when the trawl has been used near the shore.
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 17 A portion of a huge Pyrosoma..was brought up in the trawl.
1880 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 524 The Trawl, or Beam-trawl..is a triangular purse-shaped net, about 70 feet long, usually having a breadth of about 40 feet at the mouth, and gradually diminishing to 4 or 5 feet at the commencement of the cod, or smaller end.., which is about 10 feet long, and of nearly uniform breadth. The upper part of the mouth is secured to a wooden beam about 40 feet long, which keeps the net open; this beam is supported on two upright iron frames, known as the trawl-heads or irons. The under side of the net..is made with a deeply-curved margin attached to the ground-rope, the whole length of it in contact with the ground... Two stout ropes..are fastened, one to the front of each of the trawl-heads, the other ends united to form a bridle, to which is shackled a warp 150 fathoms long. By this warp the trawl is towed.
1880 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 525 A kind of trawl called the pole-trawl..is now used only in the south of Ireland. It is much less effective than the beam-trawl.
1884 Science 4 225/2 American appliances for deep-sea investigation.—Trawls and Tangles.
1884 Science 4 226/2 The method of attaching the bridle in the Challenger trawl was similar to that afterwards adopted for the Blake trawl.
1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) ix. 114 The cry of the watch on deck, ‘Haul here! haul the trawl! all haul! all haul!’ roused me at 5 a.m.
2. † a. (?) The action of trawling, or (?) a trawling-ground. rare. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > trawl-netting
trawling1561
trawl1630
pole trawling1774
fleeting1884
trawl-fishing1895
overtrawling1913
pair trawling1976
1630 in Descr. of Thames (1758) 76 No Trawler to work in Tilbury Hope after Michaelmas, with any Manner of Net under four Inches for Plaice all the Net over. And no Trawler To come upon any Trawl with any other Net at any Time of the Year.
b. figurative. An act of ‘trawling’ in order to find a person or persons (esp. a new employee) from among a larger population.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > seeking an employee
headhunting1909
milk round1970
trawl1971
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > a search > for a person
trawl1971
1971 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 3/3 A ‘trawl’ is being made among civil servants to find a suitable man and an appointment is expected within two months.
1980 C. Moorehead Fortune's Hostages v. 97 The generals..rounded up 4,000 suspected leftists. They did very well in the trawl.
1984 Times 5 Apr. 1/8 I am going to make a serious trawl through the profession and see if I can find circuit judges whom I can safely appoint.
II. Specific use in sea-fishing with a line.
3. U.S. Applied to a buoyed line used in sea-fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals: see quot. 18641; a trawl-line. Cf. also trawl-anchor n., trawl-buoy n., trawl-roller n. at Compounds 2. to set, shoot, or throw a trawl, to place a baited trawl-line in position for fishing; to strip a trawl, to examine a trawl-line in position and remove the fish caught.The connection of this with sense 1 is doubtful.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line
boulter1602
spiller1602
bulter1769
trot-line1826
spillet1832
bultow1858
trot1858
trawl1864
set line1865
trawl-line1867
outline1890
trat-line1894
outlier1904
trout-line1912
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trawl,..a long line, sometimes extending a mile or more, having short lines with baited hooks attached to it, used for catching certain fish, as cod, mackerel, and the like.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Trawl-line It is used in deep-sea fishing, and is over-hauled every hour or so by men in small boats, who remove the fish (strip the trawl) and rebait the hooks.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 75 I helped bait up trawl ashore 'fore I could well walk.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
trawl-boat n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > trawler
trawler-boat1599
trawl-boat1799
trawler1847
trawling sloop1860
trawling smack1887
mumble bee1891
sailing-trawler1891
trawl-smack1895
side trawler1956
stern-trawler1961
pair trawl1967
pair trawler1973
1799 Naval Chron. 1 344 A mast for his trawl boat.
trawl-fisherman n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using trawl-net
trawler1599
trawler-man1618
trawl-man1775
fleeter1888
otterman1901
trawl-master1902
trawl-fisherman1907
1907 Q. Rev. Jan. 163 Out of 600 bottles more than 54 per cent. were returned by trawl-fishermen.
trawl-fishing n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > trawl-netting
trawling1561
trawl1630
pole trawling1774
fleeting1884
trawl-fishing1895
overtrawling1913
pair trawling1976
1895 Daily News 16 Apr. 5/2 The new law enacted by the Danish Government prohibiting the carrying of trawl fishing-gear within the territorial waters of Iceland.
1904 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/2 One shot..went straight through the mizzen-mast, and passed through the casing and the trawl-fishing board.
trawl-hawse n.
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1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 730 The swirl of the water beneath the trawl-hawse.
trawl-smack n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > trawler
trawler-boat1599
trawl-boat1799
trawler1847
trawling sloop1860
trawling smack1887
mumble bee1891
sailing-trawler1891
trawl-smack1895
side trawler1956
stern-trawler1961
pair trawl1967
pair trawler1973
1895 Daily News 20 May 7/6 The trawl smack Hilda also came in with a hand gone.
trawl-twine n.
C2. See also trawl-net n.
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trawl-anchor n. a small anchor for a trawl-line ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
trawl-beam n. the beam which holds open the mouth of a trawl-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > drag-net > part of
trawl-head1858
trawl-wings1884
trawl-beam1904
trolling pole1960
1904 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Jan. 226/2 At no time could we see the trawler, though we heard the click of her windlass, the jar of her trawl-beam.
trawl-buoy n. a buoy for buoying up a trawl-line.
trawl-fish n. fish caught in a trawl net; spec. (see quot. 1879).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > by method of catching > fish caught by trawling
trawl-fish1636
1636 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 110, lf. 4) Re[ceived] for the groundage of a boate that brought trall fish, 2d.
1865 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 5/1 80,000 tons of ‘trawl-fish’ alone..are sent to the metropolis in [a year].
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 248/2 Trawl-fish are separated for market purposes into two great classes, known respectively as ‘prime’ and ‘offal’. Prime includes turbot, brill, soles, dories, and red mullet... Offal is the name given to plaice, haddocks, whiting, and other kinds of inferior fishes.
1886 York Herald 10 Aug. 7/5 There was a good supply of trawl fish at to-day's market, brought in by cutters.
trawl-head n. (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > drag-net > part of
trawl-head1858
trawl-wings1884
trawl-beam1904
trolling pole1960
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 277 Along the edge of the wide opening is a stout wooden beam, to the ends of which are fastened the trawl heads, namely, thick flat semicircular bands of iron.
18801 [see sense 1]. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 48 Improved Trawl-heads, capable of clearing with safety submarine cable and similar obstacles.
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trawl-keg n. a keg-buoy used in connection with a trawl-line ( Cent. Dict.).
trawl-line n. see sense 3.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line
boulter1602
spiller1602
bulter1769
trot-line1826
spillet1832
bultow1858
trot1858
trawl1864
set line1865
trawl-line1867
outline1890
trat-line1894
outlier1904
trout-line1912
1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life 308 The old mother fish, full of spawn, are snaked on, to their miles of trawl line.
1883 Standard 13 Sept. 5/4 The ‘bultow’ is..a set line, called in some places a ‘trawl line’.
trawl-man n. one trained to use a trawl or dragnet; one who fishes with a trawl-net (in either sense).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using trawl-net
trawler1599
trawler-man1618
trawl-man1775
fleeter1888
otterman1901
trawl-master1902
trawl-fisherman1907
1775 N. D. Falck Philos. Diss. Diving Vessel 25 An experienced trawlman, accustomed to sweeping [dragging the sea-bottom].
1864 Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept. I think the trawl men might be content if they were allowed to use their trawl nets inshore without taking them into deep water.
trawl-master n. the master of a trawler: see trawler n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using trawl-net
trawler1599
trawler-man1618
trawl-man1775
fleeter1888
otterman1901
trawl-master1902
trawl-fisherman1907
1902 Scotsman 3 Jan. 7/6 In Aberdeen, the headquarters of trawling, trawlmasters ought to be more careful than anywhere else.
trawl-roller n. see quot.
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trawl-roller, a roller having a number of grooves cut in its periphery, and attached to the side of the wherry or dory, and over which the trawls are drawn into the boat.
trawl-warp n. the warp or rope of a trawl-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > ropes on nets
norsel1440
head-roping1615
nostelling1615
warrope1615
way-rope1641
head rope?1748
warp1835
balk1847
trawl-warp1864
ground-rope1874
brail1883
shoreline1887
shore-rope-
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trawl-warp, a rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawl-net.
1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) 158 Our skipper..run out some eight-inch trawl-warp over each bow.
trawl-wings n. (plural) towing-nets attached one to each side of a small beam-trawl for the collection of free-swimming animals.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > drag-net > part of
trawl-head1858
trawl-wings1884
trawl-beam1904
trolling pole1960
1884 Science 4 227/2 Fig. 3. The trawl-wings attached to the beam-trawl in use.
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trawlv.
/trɔːl/, U.S. /trɔl/, /trɑl/ 1.
a. intransitive. To fish with a net the edge of which is dragged along the bottom of the sea to catch the fish living there, esp. flatfish; to fish with a trawl-net or in a trawler.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with trawl-nets
trawl1561
saw1630
beam-trawl1883
tow-net1891
pair trawl1977
1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. sig. ¶ ivv Certeyne Fyshermen that go a trawlyng for fyshe in Catches or mongers.
1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 77 No Trawler that..doth use to Trawl to take Soal, Chates, Plaice or Thorn-back.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Rye, (Kent) All the rest of the year they trowl for soles, plaise,..brills, &c.
1822 W. Robinson in J. A. Heraud Voy. & Mem. Midshipm. (1837) v. 91 We managed to trawl several times in going over these banks.
1866 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/4 To think that..Columbus, in his most famous voyage of discovery, commanded a craft no bigger than the lugger in which the Brighton fisherman goes out trawling!
b. To drag or dredge: cf. drag v. 7b.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search for something under water > in specific manner
grapple1799
trawl1861
1861 Stockton Times 15 Nov. The body was being trawled for on Saturday.
c. transitive. To fish over (a ground) with a trawl-net; in quots. figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] > by consulting sources
looklOE
seek?a1500
to look upa1632
consulta1634
trawl1906
scan1926
screen1942
1906 Academy 10 Feb. 136/1 Mr. Macmichael has trawled every source of information.
1979 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) xix. 234 Kirov dutifully trawls the émigrés, but without result.
1984 Observer 8 Apr. 32/6 We trawled Britain, the United States, Australia and South Africa for a chief executive.
2. intransitive. To drag a seine-net behind and about a shoal of herring, etc., in order to drive, enclose, and catch them. (Also transitive with the net as object: see quots.)
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with net > with seine-net
seine1836
trawl1864
1864 Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept. Trawling went on in this loch without much objection till the trawlers went into the narrow waters above Otter Spit. If trawling was to be allowed inshore they would trawl out.
1880 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 525/1 The term trawling is commonly, although incorrectly, employed in Scotland to designate a particular mode of herring-fishing, which, however, is only seine-net fishing..on the principle of encircling shoals of fish, as has been practised in pilchard-fishing on the south coast of England from time immemorial.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 306 The net used for driving is 200 fathoms long, 8 fathoms deep, with meshes 6 inches square, made of 9-yarn rope... The net is trawled behind and about the herd [of seals] so as to drive them into the fiord and keep them there. Sometimes they rush under or over the net.
3. transitive. To catch or take with a trawl or trawl-net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with net
netOE
dredge1508
drag1698
tuck1785
gillnet1837
amphibolize1854
gill1868
trawl1883
seine1887
poke1899
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 175 Swatching and Trolling Old Hoods [seals].
1890 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 30 199 A specimen of Triassic conglomerate trawled seven miles south of the Deadman headland.
1906 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 6/2 The steam trawler Herbert Ingram has landed at Boston a Royal sturgeon, which weighed 20 st... It was trawled up in the North Sea.
4. Often confounded with trowl, troll v.The following quot. 1701 appears to be the earliest instance of this confusion.
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1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) at Trawlermen Hence to trowle or trawle with a Trowling-line for Pikes.
Derivatives
trawled adj. /trɔːld/
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [adjective] > with net
trawled1864
seining1874
1864 Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept. I have seen the curers anxious to get the trawled herring.
1864 Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 1188/1 I believe I got the second shot of trawled fish that was ever fished in this country.
Draft additions 1993
d. intransitive. figurative. To engage in an exhaustive or extensive (sometimes indiscriminate) search for something; spec. to search for a suitable candidate by sifting through a large number.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search exhaustively
to turn every straw?c1225
to rake (out) hell1542
leave no straw unturned1575
to leave no stone unturned1670
trawl1980
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (for a person)
trawl1980
1980 ‘D. Kavanagh’ Duffy iii. 56 He went trawling at the Caramel Club and took a chubby journalist back to the flat.
1984 Times 26 June 15/1 GUS has been trawling for additions to its finance division.
1986 P. D. James Taste for Death iii. i. 186 Haven't you seen those dreadful old men, trawling for a committee, angling for a royal commission.
1990 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 70 (caption) Clare Selerie-Grey, Editor of Woman's Hour takes a good look at the day's papers, trawling for hot items.
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