| 释义 |
trawling, vbl. n.|ˈtrɔːlɪŋ|
[f. trawl v. + -ing1.]
Fishing with a trawl-net or beam-trawl; also, the action of trawl v. in other applications. Also attrib. as trawling apparatus, trawling sloop, trawling smack, etc.
1561[see trawl v. 1]. 1689[see trinking]. 1823Byron Juan xiii. cvi. note, Even net fishing, trawling, &c., are more humane and useful—but angling! 1858Lewes Sea-side Stud. 276, I got initiated into the art and mystery of trawling, having made friends with a fisherman, master of a Trawler. 1864Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept., When trawling was going on it took down the price of the herring... If the trawling commences again they may stop the drift-nets altogether, for they would get no fish. 1860Daily News 20 Mar., A large number of trawling-sloops have been caught at sea, and much anxiety is felt for their safety. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 7 Trawling Apparatus for Smacks and Yachts. 1887E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1888) 114 Aboard a trawling-smack in one of the Yarmouth fleets. 1889Act 52 & 53 Vict. c. 23 §6 It shall not be lawful to use the method of fishing known as beam trawling or otter trawling within three miles of low water mark of any part of the coast of Scotland. |