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To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.

One who, or that which, trawls.

A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish. [Obs.] Cowell.

Same as Trawl, n., 2.

A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.

Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful. Milton.

See Waul. Shak.

To cry, as a cat; to waul. [Obs.] Spenser.

To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell. Tennyson. There howling Scyllas yawling round about. Fairfax.

Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.

Affected; given to false show. [Obs.] A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak.

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

e of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

See Awless.

at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

lionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.