dragnet

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
2. Heightened efforts by law enforcement personnel undertaken in order to capture suspects.

Verb

1. (transitive) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
2. (transitive) To undertake heightened efforts to catch a suspect.

Conceptos

red de arrastre

red barredera

draga

redada

Sinónimos

trawl

seine

trawl net

raid

cordon

round-up

fishing net

swoop

drag-net

belt

drag net

dredge

enclosure

fishnet

net

rope

🪢

string bag

twine

Traducciones

chalut

tartana

Schleppnetz

arrastão

rafle

rasca

drague

rete a strascico

descente

sleepnet

seine

rede varredoura

draga

gabare

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con sueco: dragnät

Cognado con noruego: dragnett

Cognado con islandés: dragnet

In summary

From drag + net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (“dragnet”), equivalent to dray + net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.