dredge

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With regulators 'blessing, TVA was simply putting ash from its massive Kingston plant -- where nine burners consume 14,000 tons of coal a day -- into a nearby lagoon where it was mixed with water, allowed to settle and then pumped into what's known as a dredge cell.

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  1. noun Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
  2. noun Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
  3. noun An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.
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  • But there is no crane aboard the dredge, according to company officials. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • The bites coming off the dredge are very impressive and a dredge can be engineered to be less trouble than you might think.
  • With regulators 'blessing, TVA was simply putting ash from its massive Kingston plant -- where nine burners consume 14,000 tons of coal a day -- into a nearby lagoon where it was mixed with water, allowed to settle and then pumped into what's known as a dredge cell. —  Facing South
  • But Palmer said that if the RWSA had the money to dredge, it would be more beneficial to invest those resources in building both the new Ragged Mountain Dam and the South Fork pipeline as soon as possible. —  Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center
  • Those are needed to maintain any dredge-built land, and they are the most efficient solution to address wide areas of some basins. —  the mosquito coast
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  1. Middle English dreg- (in dreg-boat, boat for dredging); akin to Old English dragan, to draw.
  2. From obsolete dredge, a sweetmeat, from Middle English dragge, from Old French dragie, alteration of Latin tragēmata, confectionary, from Greek, pl. of tragēma, sweetmeat; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly sometimes written drudge; of Low German origin, perhaps through Old French drege, dreige, a kind of net used for catching oysters (cf. modern F. drague, from English drag, n.), from Old Dutch draghe, Dutch dreg (-net), a dredge, a drag-net (see drag-net and dray); cf. Dutch dreg = Low German dregge, drägge = Danish drœg = Swedish dragg, a grapnel, drag. The form dredge is practically an assibilation of drag, n., ult. from drag, v.: see drag.
  2. from dredge, n.
  3. Also dradge; assibilated from earlier dreg, from Middle English dragg, dragge, drage, a mixture of different kinds of grain or pulse, meslin; the same as Middle English dragge, dradge, dragy, a kind of digestive and stomachic comfit, from Old French dragie, dragee, a kind of digestive powder, a comfit, sweetmeat, also small shot, etc., modern F. dragée, a sugar-plum, small shot, meslin, from Provencal dragea = Spanish grajea = Portuguese grageia, grangea = Italian traggea, now treggea, comfits, sugar-plums, sweetmeats (Middle Latin dragetum, dragata, drageia, dragia, after Old French), from Middle Latin tragemata, plural, from Greek τραγήματα, rarely in singular τράγημα, dried fruits or sweetmeats eaten as dessert, from τραγεῖν, 2d aorist of τρώγειν, gnaw, nibble, munch, eat.
  4. Formerly dreg; English dial, dridge; from dredge, n.
 

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