Noun: trawl
| Singular | trawl |
| Plural | trawls |
Sample Sentences
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I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
Nouns inflected like trawl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray. See: Latin Nouns '
tragula', English Nouns '
drag'.
Verbs referencing "trawl"
Finnish Nouns
trooli, Swedish Nouns
trål, Russian Nouns
трал, Romanian Nouns
traul.