arrastão

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From arrastar (to trawl; to drag) +‎ -ão, from rasto (dragnet).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ar‧ras‧tão

Noun

arrastão m (plural arrastões)

  1. (fishing) trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
    Synonym: pesca de arrasto
  2. (fishing) trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
  3. (fishing) dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
    Synonyms: arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro
  4. the act of violently dragging something
    Synonyms: arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão
  5. (criminology) a form of crime in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal the most they can; similar to a flash rob but in an open space

Etymology 2

Verb

arrastão

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of arrastam, now a common misspelling.