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trawler

[traw-ler] / ˈtrɔ lər /
NOUN
fisherman
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This modest trawler, the Rose of Nevada, no longer contains its doomed crew and yet here it is, without explanation and ready for new fishermen.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Jens Frederiksen, who works at a fishing business in Nuuk running a big shrimp trawler, said there is a divide in opinion between those in the capital and those in other coastal areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

She said theories included it was captured accidentally by a trawler and then thrown overboard, or killed by a whale.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2025

Shoto’s vessel was a large interplanetary trawler named the Kurosawa, modeled after a ship called the Bebop in the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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