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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl
a boulter
fish with trawlers
To fish from a slow moving boat
If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose. A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show
{i} fishing net dragged along the sea bottom
a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
{f} fish with a fishing net dragged along the sea bottom
To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) fish with trawlers
A net used for trawling
A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom
When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish. They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish We came upon a fishing boat trawling for Dover sole
It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc
A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
to trawl
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