Dredge

Definitions

1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
2. A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
3. A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
   countable
4. A surname.
5. A dredging machine.
6. A mixture of oats and barley.
   uncountable
7. An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
8. The act of dredging.
9. Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

Equivalents

Examples

“The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.”

“A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.”

“It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley”

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