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   trawl

   /trɔːl/

   verb

   • 1. fish with a trawl net or seine: "the boats trawled for flounder"
   • ▪ catch with a trawl or seine: "British cod is being replaced by hoki, trawled from great depths off New Zealand"
   • ▪ drag or trail (something) through water: "she trawled a toe to test the temperature"
   • 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"
   • ▪ a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a boat along the bottom of the sea or a lake.
   • 2. a thorough search: "a constant trawl for information"
   • 3. a long sea-fishing line along which are tied buoys supporting baited hooks on short lines. North American

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen ‘to drag’ (related to traghel ‘dragnet’), perhaps from Latin tragula ‘dragnet’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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