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Dredge

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Noun

1. dredge

a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

Verb

2. dredge

cover before cooking

Example Sentences:
'dredge the chicken in flour before frying it'

3. drag, dredge

search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

4. dredge

remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dredge

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noun
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
verb
3. 
to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge
4. (transitive)
to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag
verb
to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Dredge

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noun
1. 
a device consisting of a net attached to a frame, dragged along the bottom of a river, bay, etc. to gather shellfish, marine plant specimens, etc.
2. 
an apparatus for scooping or sucking up mud, sand, rocks, etc., as in deepening or clearing channels, harbors, etc.
3. 
a barge or other boat equipped with a dredge
verb transitiveWord forms: dredged or ˈdredging
4. 
to search for or gather (up) with or as with a dredge
5. 
to enlarge or clean out (a river channel, harbor, etc.) with a dredge
verb intransitive
6. 
to use a dredge
7. 
to search as with a dredge
verb transitiveWord forms: dredged or ˈdredging
1. 
to coat (food) with flour or the like, as by sprinkling
2. 
to sprinkle (flour, etc.)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dredge

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n.
1. Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
2. Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
3. An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.
v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es
v. tr.
1. To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.
2. To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt.
3. To come up with; unearth: dredged up bitter memories.
v. intr.
To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold.
tr.v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es
To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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