vbl. sb. [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, sloop, smack, etc.
1561, 1689. [see TRAWL v. 1, TRINKING].
1823. Byron, Juan, XIII. cvi., note. Even net fishing, trawling, &c., are more humane and useful—but angling!
1858. Lewes, Sea-side Stud., 276. I got initiated into the art and mystery of trawling, having made friends with a fisherman, master of a Trawler.
1864. Glasgow 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.
1869. Daily News, 20 March. A large number of trawling-sloops have been caught at sea, and much anxiety is felt for their safety.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 7. Trawling Apparatus for Smacks and Yachts.
1887. E. J. Mather, Nor’ard of Dogger (1888), 114. Aboard a trawling-smack in one of the Yarmouth fleets.
1889. Act 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.
