trawl
noun/trɔːl/
/trɔːl/
- a search through a large amount of information, documents, etc.
- A quick trawl through the newspapers yielded five suitable job adverts.
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- (also trawl net)a large net with a wide opening, that is dragged along the bottom of the sea by a boat in order to catch fishTopics Transport by waterc2
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen ‘to drag’ (related to traghel ‘dragnet’), perhaps from Latin tragula ‘dragnet’.
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