Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dredging machine.
- n. Nautical A barge or boat equipped with a dredge.
- n. A container with a perforated lid used for coating food with a powder, such as flour or sugar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who works with or makes use of a dredge.
- n. A boat or vessel used in dredging.
- n. A dredging-machine.
- n. A dredging-box.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed.
- n. a container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who fishes with a dredge.
- n. A dredging machine.
- n. (Cookery) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also
dredging box ,drudger , anddrudging box .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging
Etymologies
- dredge + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At present, Mozambique has only one dredger which is used in Maputo harbor.”
“dredger" came its rounds; and, for fear he should miss the warm consolations of a lower third "Scrunch," they organised one for his special benefit, and had the happiness of seeing him rising in the middle, scared and puffing, with cheeks the colour of a peony.”
“Still, when I am standpoint in a dredger, bathrobe waterfall is the last of lady-in-waiting who.”
“That the BP oil spill may be twice as bad as earlier estimates was hard news to hear but no surprise to Christian Delos Reyes, a 39-year-old oyster dredger.”
The Huffington Post: Former EPA Chief On Gulf Oil Spill: 'It's Going To Blow The Record Books Up'
“Three ships, six fishing boats and a filthy dredger stood along the busy wharf where the river flowed into the firth.”
“Late 2007 I was here on behalf of my comapany Van Oord to repair our dredger.”
“I can hardly blame the engineer who designs the hydraulic dredger, nor the driller at Exxon who mines oil for his boat, nor the construction woman who paved the ramp where the clammer launched his boat this morning.”
“Meanwhile, in case you're wondering, a trailing suction hopper dredger operates very much like a floating vacuum cleaner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dredger’.
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Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 129 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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travelling
dirigible, nautilus, tireme, odyssey, timeship, spaceship, jet, car, jeep, phaeton, truck, lightship and 58 more...
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Words I Learned from WoW
WoW: Apparently kind of educational too.
slag, viscous, cabal, dredger, lich, maelstrom, cull, sunder
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