dredgings

The slaves got their allowance every Monday night of molasses, meat, corn meal, and a kind of flour called "dredgings" or "shorts."

Documenting the American South: the Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1909

The sober citizen who would never submit his watch or his motor to amateur tamperings freely submits his lakes to drainings, fillings, dredgings, pollutions, stabilizations, mosquito control, algae control, swimmer's itch control, and the planting of any fish able to swim.

Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

No concerted attempts, that I know of, are being made to examine dredgings or construction core samples.

Drowned Worlds 2008

When the New York Harbor Board was caught paying large sums to a company that dredged by day and dumped the dredgings back into place by night, Springy and Adams could greet the news with more laughter than indignation.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

When the New York Harbor Board was caught paying large sums to a company that dredged by day and dumped the dredgings back into place by night, Springy and Adams could greet the news with more laughter than indignation.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

We constrict them with levees and dams, and then flush them with dredgings, channelizations, and the floods and silt of bad farming ..

Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

The effects of Hurricane Ike had uncovered piles of shells brought ashore during past dredgings.

MK's Creative Musings Mary K. McGraw 2008

Talisman expedition as well as to the manner in which the dredgings were performed.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

I believe Prof. Ehrenberg was one of the first to examine, microscopically, deep sea dredgings, some of which were undertaken for the Atlantic cable expedition, 1857.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

The Mollusca form a very large group of Invertebrate animals; they live on land as well as in the water, but the aquatic species are much more numerous than the terrestrial, and the deep-sea dredgings are constantly bringing to light new forms.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham