trawl

1. 1.

   a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)

   Synonymstrawl linespillersetlinetrotline

   Broaderfishing line
2. 2.

   a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

   Synonymsdragnettrawl net

   Broaderfishnet

1. 1.

   fish with trawlers

   Broaderfish

Other forms of trawl

plural

trawls·

past tense

trawled·

present participle

trawling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trawl

What does trawl mean?

trawl means "a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trawl?

trawl has 1 syllable: trawl.

What is another word for trawl?

Close synonyms include trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline, dragnet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trawl a common word?

trawl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.