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dredger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dredger
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dredger was sunk due to the defendant's negligence.
▪ The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners.
▪ The owners of the dredger required it to complete a contract which contained an onerous penalty clause.
▪ The plaintiffs could not afford to buy a new dredger and had to hire one.
▪ To move over long distances the dredger has to be towed by a tug.
▪ Would it be possible, for example, to have a dredger clear all the silt, rubbish and vegetation?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dredger

Dredger \Dredg"er\ (dr[e^]j"[~e]r), n.

  1. One who fishes with a dredge.

  2. A dredging machine.

Dredger

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dredger

c.1500, agent noun from dredge (v.).

Wiktionary
dredger

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.

WordNet
dredger

n. a barge or barge-like vessel used for dredging

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.