supertrawler
supertrawler noun: a very large, industrialised trawler.
Noun
supertrawler (plural supertrawlers)
- 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
Forms of supertrawler
| plural | supertrawlers |
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Origin of supertrawler
From super- + trawler.
Questions about supertrawler
- What does supertrawler mean?
- Supertrawler means a very large, industrialised trawler.
- What part of speech is supertrawler?
- Supertrawler is a noun.
- What is the plural of supertrawler?
- The plural of supertrawler is supertrawlers.
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