Definition of Trawleys

1. trawley [n] - See also: trawley

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trawleys

travises
travois
travoise
travoises
trawl
trawl line
trawl net
trawlboat
trawlboats
trawled
trawler
trawlerman
trawlermen
trawlers
trawley
trawleys (current term)
trawling
trawlings
trawlnet
trawlnets
trawls
trawlwarp
trawlwarps
trax
traxanox
tray
tray-table
tray-trip
tray bon
tray cloth

Literary usage of Trawleys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"Now two large mills have been constructed, to crush the cane on the spot, and a tramway has been laid from Wailuku, along which run trawleys laden with ..."

2. Convict Life: Or, Revelations Concerning Convicts and Convict Prisons by Ticket-of-leave man (1879)
"I think it was in the summer of 1876 that I, amongst others, was drafted into a party which worked some " trawleys " on the incline leading down to the ..."

3. From Sword to Share, Or, A Fortune in Five Years at Hawaii by Henry Whalley Nicholson (1881)
"The train by which we travelled was made up of some dozen sideless trucks, or trawleys, on which the freight of sugar-containers, lumber, and other building ..."

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