Etymograph

English

trawlwire

From trawl + wire.

A compound of trawl + wire

Middle Dutch traghelen

Dutch tragelen ‘to pull with a towline, trawl’

English trawl

Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- ‘to turn’

Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros ‘a twist’

Proto-Germanic *wīraz

Old English wīr ‘wire’

Middle English wir

English wire

Today it means

noun A cable connecting a trawl net to a trawler.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “trawlwire”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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