Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who takes fish with a trawl; a trawler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A fisherman on a trawler

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  • Cf. trawler. Found in two songs (by Vashti Bunyan and Mark Knopfler).

    October 17, 2009