[drej] 
noun, verb, dredged, dredg⋅ing.| 1. | Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like. |
| 2. | a barge on which such a machine is mounted. |
| 3. | a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc. |
| 4. | to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of. |
| 5. | to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge. |
| 6. | to use a dredge. |
| 7. | dredge up,
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[drej] | to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, esp. flour. |
| dredge 1 (drěj) n.
v. tr.
To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold. [Middle English dreg- (in dreg-boat, boat for dredging); akin to Old English dragan, to draw.] |
| dredge 2 (drěj) tr.v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar. [From obsolete dredge, a sweetmeat, from Middle English dragge, from Old French dragie, alteration of Latin tragēmata, confectionary, from Greek, pl. of tragēma, sweetmeat; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
Dredge
(Job 24:6). See CORN.
dredge
large floating device for underwater excavation. Dredging has four principal objectives: (1) to develop and maintain greater depths than naturally exist for canals, rivers, and harbours; (2) to obtain fill to raise the level of lowlands and thus create new land areas and improve drainage and sanitation; (3) to construct dams, dikes, and other control works for streams and seashore; and (4) to recover subaqueous deposits or marine life having commercial value
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