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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.
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Dredge up
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
verb (used without object)
Verb phrase6.
to use a dredge.
7.
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.
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| dredge up | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source: to dredge up worthless ideas |
| 2. | to raise with or as if with a dredge: they dredged up the corpse from the lake |
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Word Origin & History
dredge
late 15c., 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 ultimately from root of drag. The verb is attested from c.1500. Related: Dredged; dredging.
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