Trawl

Definition: Trawl

Trawl

Noun

1. A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).

2. A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths.

Verb

1. Fish with trawlers.

Date "trawl" was first used: 1561. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Trawl v. To sift through large volumes of data (e.g., Usenet postings, FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of interest. Source: Jargon File.
Food & Agriculture	Towed net consisting of a cone-shaped body, closed by a bag or codend and extended at the opening by wings. It can be towed by one or two boats and, according to the type, is used on the bottom or in midwater(pelagic). Source: European Union. (references)
	A large conical net dragged along the sea bottom in gathering fish. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
TRAWL	English	Tape Read and Write Library	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Trawl

Synonyms: dragnet (n), setline (n), spiller (n), trawl line (n), trawl net (n), trotline (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Experiment	Grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t_tonner, aller _ t_tons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Codfishing with Trawl (1901)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Distribution, abundance, and biology of orange roughy in the western Bay of Plenty : results of a trawl survey, June 1995 (SMT9501) (reference) Galway's Pirate Women: A Global Trawl (reference) Harvesting and processing of fish, crustacea, and molluscs : interim assistance for the south eastern trawl fishery (reference) Inshore trawl survey of the west coast South Island and Tasman and Golden Bays, March-April 1997 (KAH9701) (reference) New Zealand deepwater trawl fishery statistics, 1978-80 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Alexander Agassiz on the ALBATROSS Watching a deepsea trawl coming to the surface. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Radar display of multiple contacts of lobster pot moorings ALBATROSS IV had to find clear spot to trawl through. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Acoustic sensors used with net mensurations system -- sensors measure depth and opening of trawl net. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Emptying the bag on deck at the end of a trawl. The colorful lines at the end of the net are the tangles and keep the net from chaffing on the bottom. Credit: Fisheries.
	Bringing a huge trawl aboard a commercial fishing vessel. Credit: Fisheries.		A collection taken from a 16' semi-balloon otter trawl. The fish are small juvenile rockfish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Lee Crockett ad Ed Townsend untie the end of the otter trawl to empty the catch into collection buckets. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Emptying a small trawl onto the sorting table - Photo #1 of sequence. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Working on deck with nets and trawl gear. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Assistant Boatswain Wedderburn arranging something on one arm of the trawl doors. Plate V, print 14. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Trawl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.52% of the time. "Trawl" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	64.52%	40	54,274
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	19.35%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.13%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	62	N/A

Expressions using "trawl": floating trawl ♦ midwater trawl ♦ pelagic trawl ♦ rope trawl ♦ rope wing trawl ♦ spaghetti trawl ♦ trawl board ♦ trawl door ♦ trawl fishing ♦ trawl line ♦ trawl net ♦ trawl warp. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "trawl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tral, verzomë (fishing net), rrjetë fundore (drag-net, dredge). (various references)

Arabic		‏صاد بالشبكة, ‏شبكة صيد (landing net, net, trammel). (various references)

Bulgarian		уред за чистене на мини, трал. (various references)

Czech		nevod, lovit ryby sítí. (various references)

Danish		trawlnet (trawl net), trawl (trawl net). (various references)

Dutch		treil (trawl net), trawlnet (trawl net), trawl (trawl net), sleepnet (seine, seine fishing net, trawl net), kornet (bonnet, cap), kor (dredge, trawl net). (various references)

Farsi		کیسه ای که درته دریاکشیده میشود, کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Weigh), دام یاتور, بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Weir, Wristband), باتورکیسه ای ماهی گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish		trooli (trawl net), laahusnuotta (trawl net). (various references)

French		chalut (trawl net). (various references)

German		Schleppnetz (dredge, trawl net), Grundschleppnetz (trawl net). (various references)

Greek		τράτα (seine, trawler). (various references)

Hebrew		מכמורת (dragnet, fishing net, net, seine, trammel), ל�"ו�' מכמורת. (various references)

Hungarian		vonóháló (drag, dragnet, drift net, trawl-net), húzóháló (dragnet, seine, trail-net, trawl-net). (various references)

Indonesian		tali penangkap ikan, pukat (dredge, seine, sweep-net, trail-net), memukat. (various references)

Italian		rete a strascico (trawl net). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		底曳き網 , 底引き網 , トロール網 (Troy), トレンチ工法 (trawling, trench cut method, trend, trendy, troche, trolling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		トロールあみ, トロール , そ�"びきあみ. (various references)

Korean		트롤 (troll). (various references)

Manx		trawlal (trawling), tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, drawing, haul, haulage, heave, hitch, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, lure, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, tug, tugging, yank). (various references)

Pig Latin		awltray

Portuguese		rede de arrasto (seine, trail-net), rede de arrastar (drag-net), espinhel (paternoster). (various references)

Romanian		nãvodi, nãvod (drag-net, fishing net, mesh, netful, network, seine, trammel). (various references)

Russian		тралить, трал (trammel), тащить по дну. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tegliti (drag in, haul, heft, lug across, tow, tug), ribarska koča, loviti mrežom. (various references)

Spanish		trol (trawl net), red de bou (trawl net), red de arrastre (trawl net), red barredera (scoop net), rastreo (tracing, tracking), rastrear (drag, dredge, rake, rakes, trace, track, trail), pescar con jábega (seise), jábega (seine), dragar (drag, dredge, sweep). (various references)

Swedish		trål (trawl net), tråla. (various references)

Turkish		trol ile balık tutmak, trol (drag, trawl net, troll), taraklı balık ağı. (various references)

Ukrainian		тралити (sweep), трал, донний невід. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tragula. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	traghelen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "trawl": trawled, trawler, trawlerman, trawlermen, trawlers, trawley, trawleys, trawling, trawlnet, trawlnets, trawls. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Trawl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grawl, Rawl, tawle, Trakl, tral, trala, traw, trawle, traws, Trecwn, Triewald, triw, truw, trw. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-r-t-w"
	-1 letter: wart.
	-2 letters: alt, art, awl, lar, lat, law, rat, raw, tar, taw, twa, war, wat.
	-3 letters: al, ar, at, aw, la, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-r-t-w"
	+1 letter: trawls.
	+2 letters: awlwort, trawled, trawler, trawley, waltzer, warstle, wastrel, wrastle.
	+3 letters: awlworts, flatware, flatwork, flatworm, fleawort, lathwork, leadwort, leftward, outbrawl, outcrawl, outlawry, saltwork, saltwort, stalwart, tawdrily, thrawnly, thwartly, towardly, trawlers, trawleys, trawling, trawlnet, treelawn, twaddler, twangler, ultralow, waltzers, warstled, warstler, warstles, wartless, wartlike, wastrels, waterily, waterlog, waterloo, willyart, wrastled, wrastles, wrathful, wrathily, writable.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
trawl	25
shrimp trawl	9
net trawl	8
i megahertz trawl	6
otter trawl	4
door trawl	3
boards trawl	3
diagram shrimp trawl	2
net shrimp trawl	2
fishing trawl	2
fish trawl	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Trawl

Definition: Trawl

Trawl

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Verb

Specialty Definition: Trawl

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Trawl

TRAWL

Synonyms: Trawl

Synonyms within Context: Trawl

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Crosswords: Trawl

Modern Usage: Trawl

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Usage Frequency: Trawl

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