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Meaning oftrawlin English

trawl

us//træl//uk//trɔːl//

Pluraltrawls
Past Tensetrawled
Participle Verbtrawling
Third Person Singulartrawls

Definitions

Noun
1. a fishing net or dragnet device
  The fishermen used a trawl to catch shrimp in the ocean.
Verb
1. to catch fish with a trawl net; search underwater
  Researchers will trawl the seafloor to collect marine samples.
2. to fish from a slow-moving boat
  The fishermen will trawl the coastal waters for cod.
3. to search exhaustively within an area
  Researchers began to trawl the database for relevant information.

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