How to pronounce trawl

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What trawl means

verb

To fish by dragging a big net behind a boat

In a sentence: The fishing boats trawl the cold bay for shrimp each spring.

Where it comes from: It was borrowed in the 1500s from an old Dutch word meaning to pull with a towline. It is related to drag.

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