trawling
English
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Noun
trawling (countable and uncountable, plural trawlings)
- A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat.
- 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.
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Translations
fishing technique
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Verb
trawling