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Drag the riverbed
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dredge
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks. ▪ Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell. ▪ It must have been seeing her ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dredge or dredging may refer to: The arts Dredg , an American rock band Dredger (comic character) , tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic-book series Excavation dragline excavator , a tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dredge \Dredge\, v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. --Beau. & Fl. Dredging box . Same as 2d Dredger . (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. --Farrow.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: drag ] remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
Usage examples of dredge.
Sew up the fish in a cloth dredged with flour, and boil in salted and acidulated water.
The bigger problem was that dragging Caamas back into the light again was going to dredge up memories of a thousand other atrocities that had been inflicted by one group or another over the years.
Dredging the sand-bar and cutting a passage in the soft coralline reef will give excellent shelter and, some say, a depth of seventeen fathoms.
She dredged one of her gnocchi through a sauce of olive oil, garlic, and fresh sage.
They find a land despoiled by bulldozers and dredges that have torn down mountains, dammed rivers, and converted the beauty spots of nature into homesites to accommodate a population that is running wild.
Chuck Lowell again had dredged up the shattered past Layne had tried desperately to forget.
He beheld shuddering lines that a fleshly tongue is witless to describe, except perhaps in spurts of impression --prolongated, splayed at angles, an obliquangular mass of smeared and clotted material, glaucous clay dredged from an old and abiding coomb where earthly veins dangle and fell waters drip as the sculpture dripped, milky-lucent starshine in the cryptic barn, an intumescent hulk rent from the floss of a carnival mirror.
I dredged up what I could remember of half-heard philately lectures from Dad.
At another angle, powerful dredges were working overtime to supply the lime kiln and the slaker with their quota of crushed oyster shells.
If the consequences, to a man, of the slightest descent from virginity were one-tenth as swift and barbarous as the consequences to a young girl in like case, it would take a division of infantry to dredge up a single male flouter of that lex talionis in the whole western world.
The memories were always painful, and Tryton seemed determined to dredge them up.
Alicia asked, frowning as she tried to dredge up a better mental feel for the astrography involved.
All those long centuries they had smoldered, now and then breaking loose, feeding on the packed-up tinder that had been sifting into the shadows and the corners of Istanbul, its crooked angles dredged with dust and detritus and the filth of a million benighted souls.
The sandbar keeps building up from the southerly littoral drift, and they have to dredge it every few months.
Suddenly losing interest in the stick, he dropped it on the ground then dredged up all that he knew about plastering from somewhere in his memory.