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Canal-digging device
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dredger
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Word definitions for dredger in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a barge or barge-like vessel used for dredging
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed. 2 a container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour 3 One who fishes with a dredge. 4 A dredging machine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dredger \Dredg"er\, n. (Cookery) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box , drudger , and drudging box .
Usage examples of dredger.
At his saddle-bow he bore with him the great flour dredger which we saw him use at Taunton, and his honest musqueteers had their heads duly dusted every morning, though in an hour their tails would be as brown as nature made them, while the flour would be trickling in little milky streams down their broad backs, or forming in cakes upon the skirts of their coats.
Except for the dredgers, the fresh-piled sand, the dense willow thickets, and always Mt.
Far other craft our prouder river shows, Hoys, pinks, and sloops: brigs, brigantines, and snows: Nor angler we on our wide stream descry, But one poor dredger where his oysters lie: He, cold and wet, and driving with the tide, Beats his weak arms against his tarry side, Then drains the remnant of diluted gin, To aid the warmth that languishes within.
The partners now had enough money for a serious down payment on an oyster dredger, but before they made a contract with any boatbuilder, Jake wanted Tim to sail aboard one of the Deal Island innovations, so they shipped with a mean-spirited gentleman from that island, and Tim came home convinced that no boat but one of that type would satisfy him.
He knew all the engines and must have worked them on well over a hundred ships - big liners, p-shifters, ramrods, even Khormon dredgers and Gallacellan ships.