dredge
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8.1
- noun
- /drɛdʒ/
- Specialized
:
draga
- Starting in 1901, dredges transformed gold mining in the Klondike.
- dredge boats
- oyster dredge
The, the, the water was gone and that and it's just a sand pit and there was a, a gold mining dredge there.
- The, the, the water was gone and that and it's just a sand pit and there was a, a gold mining dredge there.
Examples
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First, he got bored, so he got a job working on a dredge on the Delaware River.
Fiction book (1998) -
Special ships, called dredges, have been designed to keep the channels free of sand and silt.
Academic text (2008) -
If too little chain is used, the dredge does not reach bottom.
Academic text (1996) -
At eureka creek, Tony has shut down his dredge.
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Sloops and schooners using dredges were in use after the early 1800s.
Academic text (1996) -
The company already controlled oyster drills with its suction dredge mounted on a barge.
Academic text (1996) -
Boats with rocking-chair dredges could gather as many as 60 bushels of hard clams a day.
Academic text (1990) -
Colonists gathered oysters from the beds by hand and with tongs and primitive dredges towed from sloops.
Academic text (1990) -
Ingersoll stated that fishermen gathered bay scallops by towing small, triangular dredges from rowboats or sailboats.
Academic text (1991) -
The construction crew used a large dredge to clear the harbor of debris.
Synonyms
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3.4
A machine with a large bucket that digs and moves soil
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3.9
A large machine with a scoop used for digging and moving earth
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7.9
A boat that digs mud and sand from rivers or harbours to keep channels deep for ships
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dredge as a machine takes its name from the verb dredge because it does the same job of 'pulling' mud and sand up from the bottom, so a dredge is the vessel or machine used to clear rivers and harbours.