noun
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Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
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Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
verb
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To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
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To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
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(Usually with up) to unearth.
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to dredge up someone's unsavoury past
Examples of dredge in a Sentence
The gravel is excavated as in the ordinary form of endless-chain bucket dredge and dumped on to the deck of the dredge.
Dredge chicken in flour and shake off excess.
This latter portion of the river's course is tortuous, but in spite of this, and although the depth varies from only 7 to 20 ft., and in places at low water does not exceed 4 ft., it is nevertheless navigated by vessels up to 180 tons burden and proposals have been made to embank and dredge it so as to increase this depth to 8 ft.
On the other hand, maybe they had settled their differences and he didn't want to dredge it back up again.
Just because my conscious mind doesn't remember doesn't mean my subconscious didn't dredge it up with the steak and onions we had for dinner.
Interest has been expressed in recent years over the potential to dredge for other bivalve shellfish found locally for which European markets exist.
You can use it to dredge poultry, fish, or tofu for a tasty breading.
The dredge often brings up large numbers of nodules formed upon sharks' teeth, the ear-bones of whales or turtles or small fragments of pumice or other volcanic ejecta, and all more or less incrusted with manganese oxide until the nodules vary in size from that of a potato to that of a man's head.
Unusually, we are also told the number of dietary items in the data dredge, namely 67.
There are also hydraulic dredge fisheries for razor fish and dredge fisheries for scallops.
Even so, production of sewage sludges, dredge spoils, mining tailings and exhaust gases are unlikely to fall significantly.
A committee, chiefly promoted by the Wurttemberg government and the Stuttgart chamber of commerce, reported in 1901 that it was both desirable and practicable to dredge the river and to canalize it, from Esslingen down to Mannheim, and that the cost would probably be between 2 and 22 millions sterling.
Sometimes the searchers wade into the sea, furnished with nets at the end of long poles, by means of which they drag in the sea-weed containing entangled masses of amber; or they dredge from boats in shallow water and rake up amber from between the boulders.
Dredge a selection of winter vegetables in olive oil and dried herbs, roast them until they're browned and caramelized, and serve with pasta or bread and another drizzle of olive oil.
In the estuaries of Essex there are many private or semi-private oyster fisheries, where the method of culture is to dredge up the oysters in autumn and place them in pits, where they are sorted out, and the suitable ones are selected for the market.
It has programmable brewing buttons, a large dredge drawer, and an LCD display.
Larger quantities of deposit may be conveniently collected by means of the dredge, which can be worked in any depth and brings up large stones, concretionary nodules or fossils, of the existence of which a sounding-tube could give no indication.