Definition of "trawls" [trawls]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trawl. (verb)

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• "To plumb its mysteries, the scientists employ high-tech devices, including remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and submarines, as well as more traditional equipment, such as trawls, cores and dredges that need several miles of cable to reach the seabed."
• "The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spent $5 million for 22 boats and the accompanying trawls, nets and hauling vehicles."
• "Of the 671 fish Algalita MRF collected in their night trawls, 35% had plastic particles in their stomachs."