noun
definition
A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
definition
A fisherman who uses a trawl net.
Examples of trawler in a Sentence
One can only marvel at the good nature of trawler cooks.
Around about the last week in July, the trawler Ayrshire arrived, bringing with her three merchant ships.
A Cardiff trawler skipper later lost his ticket for a number of years for failing to stop and pick up the survivors.
The vessel is a 48 meter stern trawler with 15 persons on board.
The James Barrie was a 666 ton Icelandic trawler at 45 meters.
I joined the first minesweeper, a converted trawler, at Grimsby.
He was spotted by the armed trawler Dorothy Gray.
Behind them is a steam trawler, which has unloaded its catch.
She was the first beam trawler in the Boston fleet.
John Hill 2nd Hand of the fishing trawler " Swansea Castle " gave his evidence.
Well known and used by trawler skippers, Iceland was worked all the year round by many skippers.
Dundee had the third largest trawler fleet in Scotland.
Trawler crews often spent days chopping ice off the ship and rigging to reduce the danger of overturning due to Top Hamper.
They have a large wing span, so can easily become caught in trawler nets.
The trawler had been driven ashore in severe weather and was hard aground on the Orkneys, at Copinsay.
The Icelandic gunboat is risking getting a stem packed with ice in a very tender spot from the trawler steaming at high speed.
Further along the coast, a small wooden boat battled the waves, dwarfed against the rusting hulk of an abandoned Russian trawler.
Typical South West inshore trawler This model is still incomplete Motorized sailing ketch by John Berridge.
We also heard about the cow which sank the trawler.
In the same year, ' Hawk ', the first Scottish purpose built steam trawler, was launched at Leith.