dredge
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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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verb (used without object)
Verb phrases 6.
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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verb (used with object), dredged, dredg·ing. Cookery.
to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour.
Origin:
1590–1600; v. use of dredge (now obsolete or dial.) mixture of grains, late Middle English dragge, dregge, apparently to be identified with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection < Anglo-French drag(g)é, dragee, Old French (see dragée); compare similar dual sense of Medieval Latin dragētum, dragium
1590–1600; v. use of dredge (now obsolete or dial.) mixture of grains, late Middle English dragge, dregge, apparently to be identified with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection < Anglo-French drag(g)é, dragee, Old French (see dragée); compare similar dual sense of Medieval Latin dragētum, dragium
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dredge1 (drɛdʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: dredger a machine, in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device, used to remove material from a riverbed, channel, etc |
| 2. | another name for dredger |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge |
| 4. | (tr) to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag |
| [C16: perhaps ultimately from Old English dragan to | |
| dredge2 (drɛdʒ) | |
| —vb | |
| to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc | |
| [C16: from Old French dragie, perhaps from Latin tragēmata spices, from Greek] | |
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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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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
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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Example sentences
The public was invited to comment on the effects of suction dredge mining on water quality.
One by one, dredge meatballs in flour and add them to oil.
Dredge the shrimp, a few at a time, in the sugar mixture and place on the baking sheet.
Dredge prawns first in flour, then in beaten eggs, and finally coat in panko mixture.
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