trawl

The story

1. Latin · derived fromtragula“dragnet”
2. Middle Dutch · derived fromtraghelen
3. Dutch · borrowed fromtragelen“to pull with a towline, trawl”
4. English todaytrawl

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from the 16th c. A net or dragnet used for trawling.