arrastre
Spanish, noun
arrastre is spelled A-R-R-A-S-T-R-E (8 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,361st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrastre is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “trawling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of arrastrar. With an accent, arrastré is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of arrastrar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Arte de pesca que consiste en encerrar un banco de peces con redes que llegan al fondo”.
What does arrastre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrawling
- 2
masculinedrift
- 3
masculinethe act of dragging the dead bull out of the arena
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of arrastrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arte de pesca que consiste en encerrar un banco de peces con redes que llegan al fondo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arrastre
- arrastres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to arrastre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrastre in Spanish?
arrastre appears 3.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).