DREDGE Definition & Meaning

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dredge

[drej]

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noun

Also called dredging machine.��any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
a barge on which such a machine is mounted.
a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.

verb (used with object)

dredged, dredging

to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of.
to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge.

verb (used without object)

dredged, dredging

to use a dredge.

verb phrase

1. to unearth or bring to notice.
  We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.
2. to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search.
  Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.

dredge

[drej]

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verb (used with object)

Cooking.

dredged, dredging

to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour.

dredge

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noun

Also called: dredger.��a machine, in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device, used to remove material from a riverbed, channel, etc
another name for dredger 1

verb

to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge
(tr) to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag

dredge

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verb

to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of dredge¹

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English ( Scots ) dreg, as in dreg-boat “dredge boat,” probably an irregular formation of Old English dragan draw ( def. ); dray ( def. )

Origin of dredge²

First recorded in 1590–1600; verb use of dredge (now obsolete or dialectal) “mixture of grains,” from late Middle English drag(g)e, dreg(g)e, draget(e), apparently to be identified with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie “sweet sauce, confection; mixture of grains, mix or company of people,” from Anglo-French drag(g)é, dragee, from Old French dragie, dragé; possibly related to ��é��

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of dredge¹

C16: perhaps ultimately from Old English dragan to _draw ; see _drag

Origin of dredge²

C16: from Old French dragie, perhaps from Latin �ٰ��ŧ��ٲ� spices, from Greek

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Enough sand to half-fill Wembley Stadium was dredged and pumped ashore to rebuild the beach.

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They are building a control tower and dredging a small harbour to allow bigger boats to dock.

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Sometimes what’s left behind are the dredges of history and time, which Mason resurrects onstage.

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As he dredged up memories anew, he now perceived a town embroiled in slavery.”

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Trump has dredged up a 1798 law called the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the president broad powers during a "declared war" or "invasion" to detain immigrants from an enemy nation.

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