trolling
verb
Meaning
- To saunter.
- To trundle, to roll from side to side.
- To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
- (by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait.
- To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
- To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
- To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
- To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
- To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way.
- The act of one who trolls (in various senses).
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