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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.

To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.

To draw up. [R.] Milton.

In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.

One who draws metal into wire.

To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham.

Angry; vexed; wrathful. [Obs.] With this speech the cock wex wroth and wraw. Chaucer.

Ill-tempered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Peevishness; ill temper; anger. [Obs.] Chaucer.