Definition of "trawl" []

• A trawl net. (noun)
• See setline. (noun)
• To catch (fish) with a trawl. (verb-transitive)
• To fish with a trawl. (verb-intransitive)
• To troll. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""She has a great net like a big night-cap stretched over on a spar, which we call a trawl-beam, and this is lowered down, and as the boat sails it is dragged along the bottom, and catches soles, and turbot, and plaice and sometimes john-dory, and gurnet, and brill."
• "Shouldn't that be "trawl" - 1st para line 3 after Cheaper Home Broadband."
• "A trawl is a net with a deep bag fastened to a long beam, which long beam has a three-cornered iron at each end."