dredger

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Out in the stream a dredger, all drab with marl, was discharging one after the other its bucket-fuls of miry gravel.

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  1. noun A dredging machine.
  2. noun Nautical A barge or boat equipped with a dredge.
  3. noun A container with a perforated lid used for coating food with a powder, such as flour or sugar.

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  • Then he had proceeded to the dredger, where Louis had gone to join him. —  Maigret and the Death of a Harbormaster—Simenon, Georges-15
  • It anchored, and set to work, an uninspiring bucket-dredger of ancient pattern, setting its chain of buckets to dredge up sand from the sea-bed. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
  • She asked them whether the dredger was often there, and if they knew why the bay needed deepening. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
  • When she came on deck again the dredger was entertaining a visitor. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
  • The dredger was correctly lighted, but not a sound came from her, although they sat there for over an hour. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
 

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/ˈdrɛdʒər/
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