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Definition of Trawl net
1. Noun. A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trawl Net
Literary usage of Trawl net
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"The trawl net of Europe should be carefully distinguished from the trawl line,
with which it ¡soften confused by the inexperienced. ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1898)
"It produces the same result м a trawl-net with a beam, and comes within tbe ...
It prohibits the use of " any trawl et j trawl-net, or any net having a beam ..."
3. Conditions of Life in the Sea: A Short Account of Quantitative Marine by James Johnstone (1908)
"To the foot-rope and headline is "bent" the trawl net. This is a long conical
bag of strong netting, the mesh of which varies with the size and nature of ..."
4. The Harvest of the Sea by James Glass Bertram (1885)
"Description of the trawl net—Objections to Trawling—Evidence Against and in Favour of
... The trawl-net, however destructive its agency, cannot, I fear, ..."
5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872)
"The ' trawl' net is a sort of large bag or purse, open at the larger end, and
tapering down to a fine point (not at all dissimilar in shape to the ends of ..."
6. Protocols of Proceedings of the International Marine Conference (1890)
"... in the word " trawl-net" because we have to find what is meant by the expression "
trawl-net," and then every net which is drawn on the bottom of the ..."
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