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Word entry · 5 letters

trawl

Best crossword clue

"Drag a fishing net"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /tɹɔːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted alrtwStarts with TEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. fish with trawlers

Word origin

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.

Used in a sentence

  • I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
  • The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
  • They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.

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