trawler

1. 1.

   a fisherman who use a trawl net

   Broaderfisherman
2. 2.

   a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish

   Synonymsdragger

   Broaderfishing boat

Other forms of trawler

plural

trawlers·

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 trawler

What does trawler mean?

trawler means "a fisherman who use a trawl net". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trawler?

trawler has 2 syllables: traw-ler. The stress falls on "traw". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɔlɚ/.

What is another word for trawler?

Close synonyms include dragger. 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 trawler a common word?

trawler 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.