trawled
Swept the seafloor
Trawled is the past tense of trawl.
To trawl is to fish by dragging a large net along the sea bottom: They trawled for shrimp in the Gulf.
Figuratively, to trawl is to search through a large quantity of material looking for something useful: She trawled through old newspapers for mentions of her grandfather.
Interlaced open fabric
- catchSeize or snag
- fisherySeafood harvesting enterprise
- draggingPulling with effort
- seiningCapturing fish with dragnet
bycatch · haul · deckhands · shrimping · nets · midwater · groundfish · fleet
Extremely careful and thorough
- exhaustiveCovering all possibilities
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- thoroughComplete in every detail
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
tedious · time-consuming · meticulous · careful · diligent · comprehensive · extensive · detailed
netting
Interlaced open fabric
seining · bycatch · haul · deckhands · shrimping · nets · midwater · groundfish · fleet · vessel
painstaking
Extremely careful and thorough
- exhaustiveCovering all possibilities
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- thoroughComplete in every detail
systematic · tedious · time-consuming · meticulous · careful · diligent · comprehensive · extensive · detailed · arduous
seabed
Underwater terrain below
marine · nautical · oceanographic · plankton · ecosystem · aquatic · coastal · offshore · inshore · waters
scouring
Vigorous abrasive cleaning
- combingArranging strands with teeth
- siftingSeparating by particle size
- rummagingSearching by moving things
hunting · digging · scanning · browsing · sorting · filtering · archives · databases · records · internet
trawledskimmed
Read superficially
overlooked · ignored · spot-checked · cherry-picked · sampled
- fishing trawlerNet-dragging commercial vessel
- bottom trawlingSeafloor net fishing
- shrimp trawlingNet-dragging for prawns
- trawl netCone-shaped fishing mesh
trawl, trawling, trawler, trawls, trawlers, trawlerman, trawlermen