verb
definition
To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
definition
To fish from a slow-moving boat.
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To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
noun
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A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat.
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A laborious search.
Examples of trawling in a Sentence
Large quantities of soles are obtained from a trawling ground near Cape Agulhas.
When you are looking for advice, try consulting one of the many share tipsters or trawling through financial websites ' bulletin boards.
Vessels, Beam Trawl 20 meters or over, can be rigged for either beam trawling or scallop dredging.
Spend at least an afternoon trawling the internet to get quotes.
Otherwise your chances of finding such a feature are down to either extremely assiduous trawling or mere serendipity.
Instead of trawling the media for tittle tattle why do n't you bring some definite matters to the table?
These small mounds and their coral growths are particularly vulnerable to the heavy trawling gear used in deep water.
Two sea anglers recently reported seeing pair trawling for bass taking place just two miles off Start Point, Devon.
Another discontinued all weather hobo bag worth trawling eBay for is the one by Burberry.
You can also hike, bike, enjoy the spa, enjoy souk trawling, and spend time in the High Atlas Mountains.
After all, the time saved by not trawling around the shops looking at watches can be spent in extra training.
Fisheries were little developed before 1897 when government experiments were begun, which proved that large quantities of fish were easily procurable by trawling.
The introduction of trawling revived this to some extent, and despite the distance of the city from the iron fields there is a fair yearly output of iron vessels.
Your chances of finding such a feature are down to either extremely assiduous trawling or mere serendipity.
Tropical shrimp are produced either by industrial trawling in the wild or by intensive aquaculture.
Instead of trawling the media for tittle tattle why don't you bring some definite matters to the table?
Is research just a matter of typing a phrase into Google then trawling through the hundreds of search results.