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Dredge
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
- 2 A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation. countable
- 3 a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed wordnet
- 4 Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; A dredging machine.
"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."
- 5 A mixture of oats and barley. uncountable
"It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley"
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- 6 Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
- 7 The act of dredging.
"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."
- 8 Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
- 1 To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
- 2 To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge. transitive
"Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier."
- 3 remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water wordnet
- 4 To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
"Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers."
- 5 search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost wordnet
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- 6 To unearth. transitive, usually
"to dredge up someone's unsavoury past"
- 7 cover before cooking wordnet
Etymology
From Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot (from Old English *dreċġ); or alternatively from Middle Dutch dregghe (“drag-net”), probably ultimately from the same root as drag.
From Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot (from Old English *dreċġ); or alternatively from Middle Dutch dregghe (“drag-net”), probably ultimately from the same root as drag.
From Middle English dragge, from Old French dragee, dragie, from Latin tragēmata, from Ancient Greek τραγήματα (tragḗmata, “spices”), plural of τράγημα (trágēma, “dried fruit”).
From Middle English dragge, from Old French dragee, dragie, from Latin tragēmata, from Ancient Greek τραγήματα (tragḗmata, “spices”), plural of τράγημα (trágēma, “dried fruit”).
Variant spelling of Drage.
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