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Definition of Trawled
1. trawl [v] - See also: trawl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trawled
Literary usage of Trawled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Deep-sea Fishing and Fishing Boats: An Account of the Practical Working of by Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth (1874)
"... probably of slight importance — Close-time unnecessary — Extent of ground
trawled on and of ground undisturbed — General prospects of the sea fisheries. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"In 1897 a ship carrying the German flag, and registered in Germany, trawled for
fish outside territorial waters in the Moray Firth. ..."
3. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Howard R. Oliver (1900)
"trawled, 10 fathoms. Pecten islandicus (Mull.). trawled, dead, off North ...
trawled, alive, 75 fathoms. Shore of east coast, dead. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"Hired steamer ' Rose Ann.' Localities dredged and trawled :—off Port Erin and
along SE side of ... Localities trawled:—deep channel, 12 miles SW of Calf, ..."
5. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"We sounded 16 times, and dredged or trawled 9 times, in depths from 2850 ...
On the 19th we trawled in 2750 fms.:—barnacles and sea-anemones attached to ..."
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