Meanings
nounsupertrawler (plural supertrawlers)
plural supertrawlers
- nauticalA 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
Origin
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supertrawler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supertrawler
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“supertrawler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supertrawler. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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