supertrawler

noun

supertrawler

noun

Etymology From super- + trawler.

1

Nautical, Transport A very large, industrialised trawler

  • The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. […] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209:

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