Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Trolling   /trˈoʊlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Troll  v. t.  (past & past part. trolled; pres. part. trolling)  
1.
To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. "To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye."
2.
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. "Then doth she troll to the bowl." "Troll the brown bowl."
3.
To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. "Will you troll the catch?" "His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud."
4.
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
5.
To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. "With patient angle trolls the finny deep."



Troll  v. i.  
1.
To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
2.
To move rapidly; to wag.
3.
To take part in trolling a song.
4.
To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. "Their young men... trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Trolling" Quotes from Famous Books



... which seldom refuse a bait. At daybreak on fine mornings, when camping there for a day or two, I have caught in less than an hour half a dozen two-pound bass, not counting other fish and small bass which I tossed back. I used one of Chubb's ordinary silk trolling lines and one of Abbey's spoons, which, by the way, to my fancy spin more freely and better than any others I have used. This I worked sometimes from a small bark canoe and sometimes from a wooden ...
— Black Bass - Where to catch them in quantity within an hour's ride from New York • Charles Barker Bradford

... "Baits That Catch Fish," do you see these spinners in the store where you buy tackle? You will find here twelve baits, every one of which has a record and has literally caught tons of fish. We call them "The 12 Surety Baits." We want you to try them for casting and trolling these next two months, because all varieties of bass are particularly savage in striking these baits late ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... can hear his voice now, trolling Nancy Lee back across the waters, defying them, until ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... elevators have formed a pocket in the tail plane, which is like the spoon on a trolling-hook. The pocket is off-center and the air rushes into it as the machine topples over and plunges down. It imparts a twisting motion, which in a turn or two develops into a throbbing spin. Picture the pilot, trying to ...
— Opportunities in Aviation • Arthur Sweetser

... Godfrey!" exclaimed Mudge, after I had been silent for some time; "I'll sing you a song, to show you that I am still in good heart, as you ought to be;" and he began trolling forth a sea-ditty which he had often sung on festive occasions ...
— Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston

... on the wharf in front of Mr. Butler's house. In his hand he carried a stout, jointed fish-pole, neatly stowed away in a strong bag of drilling, and under his left arm hung his fish-basket, suspended by a broad belt, which crossed his breast. In this he carried his hooks, reels, trolling-lines, dinner, and other things necessary for the trip. Brave stood quietly by his side, patiently waiting for the word to start. They were not obliged to wait long, for hasty steps sounded on the gravel walk that led up to the house, the gate swung open, and George and ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon

... they had been pulling about the beautiful bends of the river. Cecil, paddling her canoe, with a trolling-line out at the end of it, and Bluebell rowing a boat, while Lilla fished with a very especial spoon-bait of her own devising. Despite, however, the seductions of the gaudy red cloth and tassel of long hair from a deer's tail, not a fish impaled itself on the circle ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... fellow; but just the same when I'm off for pleasure I don't like to keep moving all the time. This suits me first-rate. Then I expect to do some paddling when we find the right sort of a log, with Josh at the bow casting his flies, and Tom at the stern trolling his phantom ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com