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Terminology record for trawl net


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Record No.: 217/en/395
Author: ELAD D. F.
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Last updated: 2022-12-22 00:00:00


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TERM * Trawl net status: recommended

* trawl (noun)
status: accepted
PART OF SPEECH noun
PLURAL Trawl nets ;

Trawls ;

ETYMOLOGY From the verb trawl; from Dutch tragelen, ‘to trawl’; from Middle Dutch traghelen, ‘to drag’; from Middle Dutch traghel, ‘dragnet’; from Classical Latin tragula, ‘dragnet’
ETYMOLOGY SOURCE
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
DEFINITION a large net with a wide opening, that according to the type, is use at the bottom or in midwater(pelagic) in seas or oceans, dragged by one or many boats in order to catch fish (especially shrimps, catfish, etc). ** It is a towed net consisting of a cone-shaped body, closed by a bag or codend and extended at the opening by wings. It can be towed by one or two boats.
DEFINITION SOURCE
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 222 Rev.1
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
Multilingual Dictionary of Fishing Gear

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