transcription, транскрипция: [ trɔ:l ]
( trawls, trawling, trawled)
1.
If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose. ( BRIT )
A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves...
Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show.
VERB : V through n , V n
2.
When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish.
They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish...
We came upon a fishing boat trawling for Dover sole.
VERB : V , V for n , also V n