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