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A net or dragnet used for trawling.
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A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
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An exhaustive search.
- I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
trawl
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To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.ambitransitive
- The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
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To fish from a slow-moving boat.intransitive
- They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
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To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.intransitive
- We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.