trawling

/trawl/US // trɔl //UK // (trɔːl) //

拖网,拖网捕捞,拖网捕鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Also called trawl net . a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
- : Also called trawl line . a buoyed line used in sea fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to fish with a net that drags along the sea bottom to catch the fish living there.
- : to fish with a trawl line.
- : to troll.

v.有主动词 verb

verbfish

Synonyms

Every accessible square meter of the North Sea was being hit approximately twice per year by a trawl.
Why, I offered to thrash him and his two boys only three weeks ago, for hanging around after dark where I had a trawl set.
Indeed, the pelicans enclosed the fish with their united wings in a regular line as close and compact as a trawl or drag-net.
There is some ship-building, some brewing, with oyster and trawl fishing; the fishery engages nearly seven hundred persons.
Five soundings were taken, and, on July 9, the trawl was put over in three hundred and forty-five fathoms.
We had been driving before a light westerly wind, when the trawl caught on the bottom and stopped the vessel.