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trawling

noun C2
  1. A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A laborious search. (countable, uncountable)

Plural trawlings

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SOME FISHERMEN were out trawling their nets.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 78 · B2

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