arrastão
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Arrastar (“to trawl; to drag”) + -ão, from rasto (“dragnet”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aʁasˈtɐ̃w̃/, /aʁaʃˈtɐ̃w̃/
Noun
arrastão f (plural arrastões)
- Trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
- Trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
- Dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
- The act of violently dragging something
- A form of crime, occurring in Brazil and Portugal, in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal every object in it.
Synonyms
- (trawling): pesca de arrasto
- (dragnet): arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro
- (act of dragging something): arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão
Related terms
- arrasta
- arrastadamente
- arrastadeiro
- arrastadiço
- arrastado
- arrastador
- arrastadouro
- arrastadura
- arrastamento
- arrastar
- arraste
- arrasto
Descendants
- English: arrastão
Verb
arrastão
- Obsolete spelling of arrastam