noun
- a large, baglike net dragged by a boat along the bottom of a fishing bank
- ☆ a long line supported by buoys, from which many short fishing lines are hung
- Chiefly Brit. a thorough search
Origin:
< ? MDu traghel, dragnet < ? L tragula: see trail
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to fish or catch with a trawl
- Chiefly Brit. to make a thorough search (of): often with through: to trawl a biography for telling anecdotes