dredge

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; A dredging machine.

• The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.

Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:; An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

The act of dredging.

• A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.

Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.

To bring something to the surface with a dredge.

• Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, an

To unearth.transitiveusually

• to dredge up someone's unsavoury past

A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.countable

A mixture of oats and barley.uncountable

• It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley

To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.transitive

• Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier.