trawler
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
trail
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
trawler
a boat used in trawling (fish with a trawlnet (a large net dragged by a boat))
拖捞船
Dissection of trawler
trawler = trail (draw, drag) + -er (thing that);
trawler = a boat that drags a large net for fishing
Now Repeat my Dissection
trawler = a boat that drags a large net for fishing
Important roots for this word:
-er
trail
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
Repetition is the key to learning.
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