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dredge1 
[drej] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, dredged, dredg·ing.
[drej] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, dredged, dredg·ing. –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
—Verb phrase
| 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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dredge2
[drej] Pronunciation Key
[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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| dredge 1
(drěj) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es v. tr.
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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| dredge 2
(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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dredge (n.)
dredge (n.)
1471, from Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," or M.Du. dregghe "drag-net," one possibly from the other but hard to tell which came first; probably ult. from root of drag. The verb is attested from 1508.
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| dredge | |
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| 1. | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
verb | |
| 1. | cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" |
| 2. | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost |
| 3. | remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Dredge
Dredge\, n. [F. dr[`e]ge, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. ????. See Draw.]1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea. 2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. --Raymond.
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Dredge
Dredge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dredged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.] To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. --R. Carew. Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.
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Dredge
Dredge\, n. [OE. dragge, F. drag['e]e, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. ?, fr. ? to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] --Kersey.
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Dredge
Dredge\, v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. --Beau. & Fl. Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. --Farrow.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Dredge
(Job 24:6). See CORN.
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