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trawler

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,968 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: trawlers

A trawler is a fishing boat that drags a net behind it. A deep-sea trawler, the trawler put out, a beam trawler.

Bottom trawling drags the net along the sea floor and is the most productive and most destructive way of fishing there is, since it takes everything and flattens the habitat as it goes. Deep-sea fishing remains among the deadliest jobs in the world.

Sebastiandoe5 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of trawler

  1. 1nountrawlerA fishing boat that drags a net behind it.B2+

    “The trawler returned to port with its nets full of cod.”

trawler is a boat.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    tragula — dragnet

  2. Middle Dutch

    traghelen

  3. Dutch

    tragelen — to pull with a towline, trawl

  4. English

    trawl

  5. English, today

    trawler

Built from

  • traghel · Middle Dutch — dragnet

From trawl + -er. trawl 16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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trawler in the wild

  • The Dance class of World War II were armed trawlers of the Royal Navy.

    Dance-class trawler

  • Adding depth charge racks on the deck, ASDIC sonar below, and a 3-inch or 4-inch gun in the bow equipped the trawler for anti-submarine duties.

    Naval trawler

  • The Shakespearian-class trawler was a series of anti-submarine naval trawlers of the Royal Navy.

    Shakespearian-class trawler

  • The trawlers were armed with a QF 12-pounder gun, three 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and thirty depth charges.

    Shakespearian-class trawler

  • Tree-class trawlers were a class of anti-submarine naval trawlers which served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

    Tree-class trawler

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the tragula family

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