trawler
trawler
Definition
trawler (trô′lər)
noun
a boat used in trawling
trawler
Usage Examples
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.
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