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Dredge   /drɛdʒ/   Listen
verb
Dredge  v. t.  (past & past part. dredged; pres. part. dredging)  To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
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.


Dredge  v. t.  To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
Dredging box.
(a)
Same as 2d Dredger.
(b)
(Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.


noun
Dredge  n.  
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.


Dredge  n.  A mixture of oats and barley. (Obs.)





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"Dredge" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the subconsciousness of every one of us contains nothing but the foul and monstrous specimens which they dredge up from the mental depths of their neuropathic patients and exhibit ...
— Dreams • Henri Bergson
... comforts too for Gerty was womanly wise and knew that a mere man liked that feeling of hominess. Her griddlecakes done to a goldenbrown hue and queen Ann's pudding of delightful creaminess had won golden opinions from all because she had a lucky hand also for lighting a fire, dredge in the fine selfraising flour and always stir in the same direction, then cream the milk and sugar and whisk well the white of eggs though she didn't like the eating part when there were any people that made ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... been occasionally gathered in the lake close to the station when there has been a scarcity of food. Those employed belong almost wholly to a species of Unio which abounds over a considerable area of soft bottom, under a depth of 2 to 10 feet of water. Many were taken with a boat dredge; more were scooped up with long-handled dip nets of special construction. Finally a wide, flat dredge was made, to be drawn by a windlass on the shore and manipulated by means of poles ...
— New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century • Various
... the toiling artisans of France can send us? To look through plate-glass windows, and pity the brown soldiers,—or sneer at the black ones? to reduce the speed of trotting horses a second or two below its old minimum? to color meerschaums? to flaunt in laces, and sparkle in diamonds? to dredge our maidens' hair with gold-dust? to float through life, the passive shuttlecocks of fashion, from the avenues to the beaches, and back again from the beaches to the avenues? Was it for this that ...
— Pages From an Old Volume of Life - A Collection Of Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... guano, and salting down the fish; and there will be a man-of-war steamer there to protect them, and a lighthouse to show them the way; and you and I, perhaps, shall go some day to the Allalonestone to the great summer sea-fair, and dredge strange creatures such as man never saw before; and we shall hear the sailors boast that it is not the worst jewel in Queen Victoria's crown, for there are eighty miles of codbank, and food for all the poor folk in the land. ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley


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