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- Trawl - v. t. - To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
- Trawl - n. - A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
- Trawl - n. - A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
- Trawlboat - n. - A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
- Trawler - n. - One who, or that which, trawls.
- Trawler - n. - A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
- Trawlerman - n. - A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
- Trawlermen - pl. - of Trawlerman
- Trawlnet - n. - Same as Trawl, n., 2.
- Trawlwarp - n. - A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.
- Spilliard fishing - - A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.