TRAWL
What does "TRAWL" mean?
To fish by dragging a large net along the sea bottom or through the water.
Meanings
- To catch fish by towing a wide-mouthed net behind a boat. The boats trawl these grounds from dawn until the holds are full.
- To search thoroughly through a large body of data, sources, or material. She trawled the archives for any mention of her grandfather's ship. figurative
- The large net dragged in such fishing, or the act of dragging it. They hauled the trawl aboard, heavy with cod and tangled weed.
Word origin
Probably from Middle Dutch 'traghelen', to drag, related to 'traghel', a dragnet, ultimately from Latin 'tragula', a dragnet.
Remember it
TRAWL is a TRAIL dragged through water - the net leaves a path along the seabed.
A little poem
The net combs the dark,
raking the floor of the sea -
what it keeps, it chose.
haiku
Wordplay
- I trawled the whole internet for a good fishing joke and came back with an empty net.
What it teaches
Dragging the depths catches more than you wanted; choose what to throw back.
Quick facts
What does TRAWL mean?
To fish by dragging a large net along the sea bottom or through the water.
Is TRAWL a valid word?
Yes — TRAWL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TRAWL?
TRAWL has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TRAWL come from?
Probably from Middle Dutch 'traghelen', to drag, related to 'traghel', a dragnet, ultimately from Latin 'tragula', a dragnet.
What can TRAWL teach us?
Dragging the depths catches more than you wanted; choose what to throw back.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.