trawl line

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstrawlspillersetlinetrotline

   Broaderfishing line

Questions about trawl line

What does trawl line mean?

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

What is another word for trawl line?

Close synonyms include trawl, spiller, setline, trotline. 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 line a common word?

trawl line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.