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Dragnet

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

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Scheme 76% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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Trawl 74% connected

To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

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Trawl 74% connected

To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

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Trawl 92% connected

To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ambulacrum noun · 78% connection

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…

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Belomancy noun · 78% connection

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn…

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Bottom adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

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Bottomed adjective · 78% connection

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

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Coast noun · 78% connection

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…

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Dipper noun · 78% connection

small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

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Drag verb · 78% connection

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

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Exchange noun · 78% connection

The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by…

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Fishing noun · 78% connection

Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.

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Flood verb · 78% connection

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and o…

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Foul verb · 78% connection

To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

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Glide noun · 78% connection

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…

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Gurnard noun · 78% connection

bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom

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Half-ray noun · 78% connection

A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line dr…

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Inframedian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.

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Intervale noun · 78% connection

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river,…

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Keel noun · 78% connection

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…

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Lobworm noun · 78% connection

marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

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