It consists principally of a frame of iron and a net which is attached to the frame. noun An apparatus for bringing up marine animals, plants, and other objects from the bottom of the sea for scientific investigation.noun Any instrument for bringing up or removing solid substances from under water by dragging on the bottom.transitive verb To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.intransitive verb To come up with unearth.intransitive verb To bring up with a dredge.intransitive verb To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.noun An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.noun Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.noun Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation.The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.Others specialize in dredging operations required for bridges and dams or for harbors.Fearing more floods, the state had the river dredged.2 DF to cover food lightly with flour, sugar etc → dredge something ↔ up → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus dredge From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water, Civil, Food dredge dredge / dredʒ / verb 1 TTW TEC to remove mud or sand from the bottom of a river, harbour etc, or to search for something by doing this They dredged for oysters.
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