Converse of subject

• catch: Large bass may take several decades to grow and so once caught by trawlers they will not be replaced.

Converse of object

• sink: We also heard about the cow which sank the trawler.

• build: In the same year, ' Hawk ' , the first Scottish purpose built steam trawler, was launched at Leith.

Adjective modifier

• pelagic: From small one man vessels up to large pelagic trawlers.

• stern: The vessel is a 48 meter stern trawler with 15 persons on board.

• Icelandic: The James Barrie was a 666 ton Icelandic trawler at 45 meters.

• converted: I joined the first minesweeper, a converted trawler, at Grimsby.

• armed: He was spotted by the armed trawler Dorothy Gray.

• Belgian: Yet Belgian trawlers had been exempted from the ban.

Modifies a noun

• skipper: Well known and used by trawler skippers, Iceland was worked all the year round by many skippers.

• fleet: Dundee had the third largest trawler fleet in Scotland.

• fishing: One offense of a large trawler fishing inside the District.

• crew: Trawler crews often spent days chopping ice off the ship and rigging to reduce the danger of overturning due to Top Hamper.

• net: They have a large wing span, so can easily become caught in trawler nets.

Noun used with modifier

• minesweeping: The convoy with its twelve escorts would proceed to Dungeness where the Dover Command escorts, minesweeping trawlers, would relieve those from Portsmouth.

• deep-sea: Many deep-sea trawlers now have active trawl doors that can be adapted remotely whilst on the seabed.

• steam: Behind them is a steam trawler, which has unloaded its catch.

• prawn: Today, 14 boats, both lobster boats and prawn trawlers, fish from the harbor.

• beam: She was the first beam trawler in the Boston fleet.

• fishing: John Hill 2nd Hand of the fishing trawler " Swansea Castle " gave his evidence.