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trawl Sea fishing 1. a large net, usually in the shape of a sock or bag, drawn at deep levels behind special boats (trawlers) 2. a long line to which numerous shorter hooked lines are attached, suspended between buoys 3. Angling another word for troll (sense 2) trawl [trȯl] (engineering) A baglike net whose mouth is kept open by boards or by a leading diving vane or depressor at the foot of the opening and a spreader bar at the top; towed by a ship at specified depths for catching forms of marine life.
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| Court Ruling on Data Trawl of Muslim Men Said to Strike "Right Balance" Indeed, he explains, "the pass of a trawl that does the most devastation to fragile seafloor ecosystems is not the hundredth or even the thousandth--it's the first. It's a visually impressive but emotionally tin-eared trawl over that oft-scraped indie film territory, the soulless suburban landscape. |
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