trowl
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
trowl (third-person singular simple present trowls, present participle trowling, simple past and past participle trowled)
- Archaic form of troll. (entice fish with bait)
- December 15 1739, Henry Fielding, The Champion:
- he seems to prefer snapping, to trowling after this fish
References[edit]
- “trowl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.