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trawling

verb

Meaning

  1. To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
  2. To fish from a slow-moving boat.
  3. To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
  4. A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat.
  5. A laborious search.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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