dragnet

English

Etymology

drag + net

Noun

dragnet (plural dragnets)

1. A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
2. Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.

Translations

net dragged across the bottom

• Finnish: pohjatrooli (fi)
• French: chalut (fr) m
• Jèrriais: drannet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: not (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: not (nn) f

• Portuguese: rasca (pt) f, arrastão (pt) m
• Spanish: red barredera (es) f
• Swedish: not (sv) c

Anagrams

• granted