trowl

trowl (third-person singular simple present trowls, present participle trowling, simple past and past participle trowled)

1. Obsolete spelling of troll (“entice fish with bait”).
   • December 15 1739, Henry Fielding, The Champion:

     Thirdly, he seems to prefer snapping, to trowling after this fish.

• “trowl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.