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Definition of Trawling
1. trawl [v] - See also: trawl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trawling
Literary usage of Trawling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"THE trawling COMMISSION AND OUR FISH-SUPPLY. trawling, though a familiar word,
has not hitherto been one of much meaning to the general public. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"Campbeltown Sheriff's Judgment on trawling. MR. MORTON (Sutherland) : I beg to
ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that, in a case of illegal ..."
3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1887)
"FISHERY DEPARTMENT (ENGLAND AND WALES)— BEAM trawling. ... to regulate or suspend
beam trawling within territorial waters where it is desirable so to do, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1894)
"trawling operations were commenced at the end of last April off Lakes Entrance,
... The trawling apparatus consisted of two trawl-heads of iron, ..."
5. The Harvest of the Sea by James Glass Bertram (1885)
"trawling. Description of the Trawl Net—Objections to trawling—Evidence Against
and in Favour of trawling—Philosophy of the matter—The Round of Work on Board ..."
6. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"There are, however, many reasons for believing that trawling, to a limited extent,
... trawling, however, if it were practised by our ancestors, ..."
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