trawling

English

Bottom trawling.

Noun

trawling (countable and uncountable, plural trawlings)

1. A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
2. A laborious search.
   • 2011, Christopher Hitchens, Arguably:

     No longer would he have to fear the deportation of Gerald Haxton, who as an American was constantly running that risk in his trawlings through the bars of London.

Derived terms

• bottom trawling
• pair trawling

Related terms

• trawl
• trawler

Translations

fishing technique

• Catalan: pesca d'arrossegament f
• French: chalutage (fr) m
• German: Schleppnetzfischerei f
• Portuguese: arrastão (pt) m, pesca de arrasto f
• Serbo-Croatian: kočarenje n
• Spanish: pesca de arrastre f
• Tagalog: pamamalakaya

Verb

trawling

1. present participle and gerund of trawl