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Trolling?Trolling?Posted Jan 28, 2013 15:50 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Trolling? by pboddie Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths
I've lost context, but both trawling and trolling are means of fishing.
A trawler goes trawling with a trawl-net.
Dunno what the proper name of a troller is, but they go trolling with a troll-line. Most tuna, for example, is caught by trolling.
I've been trolling for mackerel ...
Cheers,
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Trolling? Posted Jan 29, 2013 14:23 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
I suppose I have learned something from this, never having been very interested in fishing at all. And I imagine that the Internet era meaning of the word is derived from this practice of using a baited line:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/troll--2
The interesting thing here is that the example given on the above page is rather similar to the one used earlier, but unless one attracts the catch using bait - putting something out to attract the catch - the trawling metaphor is actually more appropriate, since one is just seeing what gets dragged up. But anyway...
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