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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)
- (fishing) trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
- Synonym: pesca de arrasto
- (fishing) trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
- (fishing) dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
- Synonyms: arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro
- the act of violently dragging something
- Synonyms: arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão
- a form of crime, occurring in Brazil, in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal every object in it
Etymology 2
Verb
arrastão
- (obsolete) Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of arrastam, now a common misspelling.