trawl

trawl is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
2. noun. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

   Synonyms: dragnet

5. noun. a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)

   Synonyms: setline, spiller, trotline

6. verb. fish with trawlers

Synonyms

dragnet, setline, spiller, trotline

Common word forms

trawls, trawled, trawler, trawling, trawlable

Words from these letters

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