trawl
Speech parts
1. trawl - Noun
2. trawl - Verb
Meaning
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.
Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
According to SCFF, consultation responses were “dominated by members of the trawl industry who will object, as a matter of course, to any restriction on their freedom to trawl”.
It is not the job of the FBI, the National Security Agency, or any other part of the enormous apparatus of federal government to use intelligence intercepts to trawl for politically useful information that could be used during an election campaign.