Definition of Trawlings

1. trawling [n] - See also: trawling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trawlings

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

Literary usage of Trawlings

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

1. The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Challenger" by William James Joseph Spry (1880)
"... of the Peak—Commence section across the Atlantic—Daily soundings and trawlings—The results—Configuration of the bottom—In the Tropics—The ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"The dredgings and trawlings, and the observations with closing nets in ... Some of the trawlings were very successful, although, the region having been ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"Murray's own trawlings in the West of Scotland gave a much greater number of species, sometimes as many as 50, ' still not such a great variety of animals ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... IX THE The trawlings and scrapings extended to a depth of 300 fathoms, and were prosecuted in Davis Strait, Disco Bay, on the banks and in the fiords. ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1819)
"From repeated trawlings they have calculated, that for an extent of 70 miles SE and SW this body of shell fish lie in prodigious quantities. ..."

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