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[drej] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, dredged, dredg·ing.

–noun

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.

–verb (used with object)

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.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to use a dredge.

—Verb phrase

dredge up,

a.	to unearth or bring to notice: We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.

b.	to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search: Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME (Scots) dreg-, OE *drecg(e); see dray, draw

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[drej] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object), dredged, dredg·ing. Cookery.

to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, esp. flour.

[Origin: 1590–1600; v. use of dredge (now obs. or dial.) mixture of grains, late ME dragge, dregge, appar. to be identified with ME drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection < AF drag(g)é, dragee, OF (see dragée); cf. similar dual sense of ML dragétum, dragium

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dredge¹ (drěj) Pronunciation Key
n.

Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.

v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es

v. tr.

To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.
To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt.
To come up with; unearth: dredged up bitter memories.

v. intr.
To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold.

[Middle English dreg- (in dreg-boat, boat for dredging); akin to Old English dragan, to draw.]

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dredge² (drěj) Pronunciation Key
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.]

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