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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



... assembly, for while Oxford and Cambridge still recoil from the blushing prospect of mixed classes, the College of Science anticipated America in the matter years ago—mixed socially, too, for the prestige of the College is high, and its scholarships, free of any age limit, dredge deeper even than do those of the Scotch universities. The class numbered one-and-twenty, but some remained in the theatre questioning the professor, copying the black-board diagrams before they were washed off, or examining the special specimens he had produced to illustrate the day's ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... down deep enough into yourself if you want to cure a lofty estimate of yourself. The top storeys may be beautifully furnished, but there are some ugly things and rubbish down in the cellar. There is not one of us but, if we honestly let the dredge down into the depths, as far down as the Challenger's went, miles and miles down, will bring up a pretty collection of wriggling monstrosities that never have been in the daylight before, and are ugly enough to be always shrouded in their native darkness. Down in us all, if we will go deep ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren
... dredge into the jetty sea. It sank silently as he payed out the cable. At a depth he estimated—from the amount of cable still left in the boat—as about thirty ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... wonder whether the world is as bad as a certain class of writers tell us!' she sighed in weariness, and mused on their soundings and probings of poor humanity, which the world accepts for the very bottom truth if their dredge brings up sheer refuse of the abominable. The world imagines those to be at our nature's depths who are impudent enough to expose its muddy shallows. She was in the mood for such a kind of writing: she could have started on it at once but ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... One dredge was sent around Lake Pontchartrain to commence boring in from that end. This could not be done on the river end. The Mississippi is too mighty a giant to risk such liberties. The 2,000-foot cut between the river and the lock would have to be done last of all, ...
— The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans • Thomas Ewing Dabney


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