Crossword clues for dredge
dredge
- Dig (up), as information
- Dig (up)
- Clear of silt
- Clean the waterway
- Channel changer?
- Change the channel?
- Unearth, with "up"
- Underwater excavator
- Sprinkle with sugar or flour
- Scrape the bottom of
- Scrape the bottom
- Scalloping apparatus
- Remove silt from
- Powerful scoop
- Oysterman's apparatus
- One way to deepen a channel
- Excavate mud
- Drag the riverbed
- Deepen, as a channel
- Deepen a canal, in a way
- Cover in flour
- Coat, as with flour
- Clear, as a waterway
- Clear a river
- Clean out, as a channel
- Clean out a bed
- Clean a canal, say
- Clean a canal
- Channel maintenance machine
- Canal machine
- (Of harbour or river) make deeper
- ___ up (unearth)
- Harbor deepener
- Super scooper
- Excavating machine
- Deepen, as a canal
- Change channels?
- Bring (up)
- Clear, as a channel
- A power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
- Bring (up) from the past
- Clear the channel
- Search Davy Jones's locker
- Coat with flour
- Sprinkle with flour, etc
- Panama Canal sight
- Sprinkle with a powdered substance
- Comb
- Search deeply
- Harbor enhancer
- Scoop
- Deepen a channel
- Dig under water
- Drive over border in drag
- Doctor given advantage in search for oysters?
- Earth-moving machine
- Search the riverbed
- Scrape (river bottom)
- Earth remover
- Underwater excavation machine
- Trawl (riverbed)
- Sprinkle in flour
- Remove earth from
- Mud-sucking machine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dredged
(dr[e^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.]
To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging
machine.
--R. Carew.
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 \Dredge\, n. [OE. dragge, F. drag['e]e, dredge, also,
sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL.
tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh`mata, fr. trw`gein to
gnaw.]
A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.]
--Kersey.
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.
Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), n. [F. dr[`e]ge, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. [root]73. See Draw.]
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Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
A dredging machine.
An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
(Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
--Raymond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., in Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," perhaps ultimately from root of drag (possibly via Middle Dutch dregghe "drag-net"). The verb is attested from c.1500 in Scottish. Related: Dredged; dredging.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: 2 # A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. 3 # A dredging machine. 4 # An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the se
5 Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. v
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1 to make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge 2 to bring something to the surface with a dredge 3 (''Usually with'' up) to unearth, such as an unsavoury past Etymology 2
vb. to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar Etymology 3
n. A mixture of oats and barley.
WordNet
n. a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
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
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
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dragline excavator, a tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip mine
- In the case of gold placer mining, a dredge is used to pick up ore and gravel, send it through sluices to remove gold, and deposit the remaining rock, or tailings, behind the dredge
- dredging, underwater excavation work
- marine biology dredge
- Bradley Dredge (born 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup of Golf
- data dredging, the inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities
- dredge (agriculture), a mixture of barley and oats planted together used in brewing; notable for being planted in medieval Europe
- dredge (cooking), to coat a food with a dry ingredient (such as flour or icing sugar) by first immersing it in a wet coating, such as milk or egg
- Dredge, California, a former settlement in Butte County
- dredging (astronomy), a process in stellar evolution in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection
- fishing dredge, a type of fishing dredge used to harvest mollusks
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.