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träla — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dredge noun A machine or device used to scoop up material from the bottom of a body of water.
  • slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  • trawl noun A large net dragged behind a boat to catch fish.

Senses

träla is used for these senses in English:

  • dredge To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
  • slave (intransitive) To work hard.
  • trawl (ambitransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

dredge — full definition

  1. noun A machine or device used to scoop up material from the bottom of a body of water.
  2. verb To clear or deepen a waterway by scooping out mud, sand, or debris.
  3. verb To bring up something unpleasant from the past, often followed by "up."

slave — full definition

  1. noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  2. noun A person completely controlled by or devoted to something.
  3. noun A secondary device controlled by another (master) device.

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