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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.

A trawl; a boulter; the mod

ng fish; including the bag net, casting net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc. -- Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. -- Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. -- Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, e…

A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.