Noun
One who, or that which, trawls.
A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA convert trawler may cost $2.5 million, and a 1,000-person-capacity high-speed passenger ferry can cost in the neighborhood of $50 million. Source: Internet
Chapter 1 of his 1976 book "Clear The Decks" contains a detailed description of the U-464 incident with the Icelandic trawler which confirms the Kriegsmarine account. Source: Internet
After the war, the ex-PT459 was cut down to convert and highly modified into a sightseeing boat and fishing trawler. Source: Internet
Finally he came through with the big punch line that we were waiting for: "Destroyer is alongside trawler and has taken off fifty-two prisoners." Source: Internet
Hoppy duly reported all this by radio and spent the next couple of hours shuttling back and forth between the trawler and the oncoming destroyer, coaching the destroyer how to steer. Source: Internet
He confidentially told the Observer about it while I was a journalist on the paper, and in July 1985 the story appeared on the front page with the headline “British germ bomb sprayed trawler” Source: Internet