supertrawler

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ trawler.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supertrawler (plural supertrawlers)

1. (nautical) A very large, industrialised trawler
   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209:

     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.