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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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| Such trawls based on country of origin, gender or religion, the paper opined, do not stigmatize whole groups of people. Onscreen, however, the scales never tip one way or the other: Even as the camera trawls up and down the dancers' bodies, it never locates that punctum-like detail of dress, pose, gesture, or expression that might occasion our empathy. Advances in technology had opened deep fishing grounds for the prized delicacy in the Tasman Sea, and fleets were making fortunes by dragging big, elongated trawls over the crags of extinct volcanoes, or seamounts, more than 600 meters below the surface. |
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