Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
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- 5noun
a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- 6verb
fish with trawlers
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