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    trawl
    /trɔːl/

    verb

    • 1. fish with a trawl net or seine: "the boats trawled for flounder"
    • 2. search thoroughly: "the Home Office trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files"

    noun

    • 1. an act of fishing with a trawl net or seine: "they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake"
    • 2. a thorough search: "a constant trawl for information"

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