supertrawler
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]supertrawler (plural supertrawlers)
- (nautical) A very large, industrialised trawler
- 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209:
- The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. […] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.