Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, flat-bottomed vessel equipped with a dredging-machine for removing mud, sand, etc., from the bottom of a harbor or in a channel.
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Examples
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The former is attained by running out piers into the lake from the mouth of the river; and the latter, by the use of a dredge-boat, to cut through the obstructions.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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On the pretty pier in front of the Sea Island Hotel two or three buzzards were ensconced asleep; half way across the stream a dredge-boat was hauling up phosphates from the channel-bed.
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[Page 75.] and in 1868, the "Essayons," a steam dredge-boat, constructed by the Atlantic Works, of Boston, was employed upon the bar at Pass à l'Outre.
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The government has now a dredge-boat at work at this point, which has been doing very good service of late, and it is hoped large vessels will soon be able to take in their full cargoes at Wilmington and proceed at once to sea without the necessity of lightering.
Report of Vice-Consul R.E. Heide, on the resources, trade and commerce of North Carolina. R. E. Heide 1875
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And now, with Glossin's cursed contrivance, my crew have been cut off, my boats destroyed, and I daresay the lugger's taken; there were not men enough left on board to work her, far less to fight her -- a dredge-boat might have taken her.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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And now, with Glossin's cursed contrivance, my crew have been cut off, my boats destroyed, and I daresay the lugger's taken; there were not men enough left on board to work her, far less to fight her -- a dredge-boat might have taken her.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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And now, with Glossin's cursed contrivance, my crew have been cut off, my boats destroyed, and I daresay the lugger's taken; there were not men enough left on board to work her, far less to fight her -- a dredge-boat might have taken her.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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and now, with Glossins cursed contrivance, my crew have been cut off, my boats destroyed, and I dare say the luggers takenthere were not men enough left on board to work her, far less to fight hera dredge-boat might have taken her.
Chapter LIV 1917
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And now, with Glossin’s cursed contrivance, my crew have been cut off, my boats destroyed, and I daresay the lugger’s taken; there were not men enough left on board to work her, far less to fight her — a dredge-boat might have taken her.
Guy Mannering 1815
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