Crossword-Solution: TRAWL 5 letters, 96 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Trawl v. t. To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
Trawl n. A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many
short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod,
halibut, etc.; a boulter.
Trawl n. A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its
ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in
gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.

We have 96 clues for the answer “TRAWL”

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Fish with a dragged net 1 answer
Go fishing with a net 1 answer
Go after many fish 1 answer
Fishing option that's a total drag? 1 answer
Fishing net that's dragged 1 answer
Fishing net (m) 1 answer
Fishing dragnet 1 answer
Fishing boat net 1 answer
Fish with nets 1 answer
Fish with a line 1 answer
Fish with a heavy net 1 answer
Fish with a dragnet 1 answer
Go for a big catch, in a way 1 answer
Fish with a big net 1 answer
Fish with a large net 1 answer
Fish the bottom 1 answer
Fish from a boat 1 answer
Fish for squid 1 answer
Fish for flounder 1 answer
Fish for cod 1 answer
Fish commercially with nets 1 answer
Fish commercially 1 answer
Fish by dragging nets 1 answer
Fish by dragging bag-net along seabed 1 answer
Netful of shrimp, say 1 answer
Catch fish in a large net 1 answer
Work with a net, in a way 1 answer
Work with a net 1 answer
Word with line or net 1 answer
Use fishnets 1 answer
Use a dragnet 1 answer
Tropical lake originally accommodating green fish? 1 answer
Shrimping net 1 answer
Shrimper's net 1 answer
Setline 1 answer
Sea bed dragnet. 1 answer
Fish by dragging a net 1 answer
Net used for efficient fishing 1 answer
Net that netted Dory in "Finding Nemo" 1 answer
Net dragged behind a boat 1 answer
Nab in a net 1 answer
Large, baglike net. 1 answer
Large conical net 1 answer
Large baglike fishing net. 1 answer
It's a drag to fishermen 1 answer
It's a drag in fishing circles 1 answer
It may be dragged to catch fish 1 answer
It drags in the water 1 answer
Fish by dragging 1 answer
A drag to fishermen 1 answer
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Sentences with TRAWL (5)

When we caught the wind we were soon on our seaward course, and only stopped to underrun a trawl, for the floats of which Mrs.
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008
Todd looked earnestly, explaining that her mother might not be prepared for three extra to dinner; it was her brother's trawl, and she meant to just run her eye along for the right sort of a little haddock.
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008
The rowers and courtiers were kicking and wallowing in the "waist" of the ship like fish newly shot out of a trawl net, but the princess was gone.
Gulliver of Mars Edwin L. Arnold 1996
And when the trawl is hauled, wait till the fish are counted out, and packed away, and then kneel down and inspect (in a pair of Mackintosh leggings, and your oldest coat) the crawling heap of shells and zoophytes which remains behind about the decks, and you will find, if a landsman, enough to occupy you for a week to come.
Glaucus Charles Kingsley 2014
Next morning this pioneer line was broken down at a point about 200 Yards from Cape Grisnez, and it turned out that a Boulogne fisherman had raised it on his trawl and cut a piece away, thinking he had found a rare species of tangle with gold in its heart.
Heroes of the Telegraph J. Munro 1997

Quotes with TRAWL (2)

It's strange but as I grow older, I find myself developing more optimism. I keep inching toward the point where I believe that it's more difficult to have hope than it is to embrace cynicism. In the deep dark end, there's no point unless we have at least a modicum of hope. We trawl our way through the darkness hoping to find a pinpoint of light. But isn't it remarkable that the cynics of this world — the politicians, the corporations, the squinty-eyed critics — seem to think …
Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.
Howard Jacobson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 124 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).