trawl net

1. 1.

   a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

   Synonymstrawldragnet

   Broaderfishnet

Questions about trawl net

What does trawl net mean?

trawl net means "a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths".

What is another word for trawl net?

Close synonyms include trawl, 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 net a common word?

trawl net 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.