Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dredged} (dr[e^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dredging}.] To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. --R. Carew.
{Dredging machine}, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.
Dredge \Dredge\, n. [OE. dragge, F. drag['e]e, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh`mata, fr. trw`gein to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] --Kersey.
Dredge \Dredge\, v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. --Beau. & Fl.
{Dredging box}. (a) Same as 2d {Dredger}. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. --Farrow.
Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), n. [F. dr[`e]ge, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. [root]73. See {Draw}.] 1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. --Raymond.
It took three tugs about two hours to remove the dredge.
Another dredge was being used to clear the channel near Natchez, Logue said, but it would take up to five days to clear the area.
A 35-foot-wide dredge was sent in to clear the channel, and until it finished 56 towboats and their barges were parked along a 40-mile stretch of river around Memphis.
It's too early to start looking for PCB-free striped bass, said Darrell Banks, deputy commissioner of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, which plans to dredge and remove 360,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment from the river.
In trying to reach out to the baby-boom generation, Bush failed to discern how his choice of a running mate would dredge up one of that generation's most terrible memories.
The dredge, Northerly Island, was freed Saturday from its resting place on sand.
They don't give the mussel beds a chance for any new growth to occur. Everybody's trying to get in on it, and they're starting to dredge smaller rivers.
In contrast to the ornate Metropolitan Museum and its art treasures, Governors Island is a modest Coast Guard base that was built up with dredge and rock excavated from New York subway construction.
A few miles north of here, a dredge worked around the clock to deepen a channel that was 6 inches shallower than the 9-foot depth guaranteed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
After a successful test dredge in the summer of 1986, the Bima was towed to Seattle for a $15 million overhaul and returned here this June.
But the barge captain apparently contributed to the accident because he failed to use the dredge's second anchor after the vessel became grounded about 250 feet from the bridge, the Coast Guard said in a statement from its office in Portsmouth, Va.
The dredge was under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers to dig the channel, said Richard Adams of North American Trailing Co. of Oakbrook, Ill., which owns the dredge.
The dredge was under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers to dig the channel, said Richard Adams of North American Trailing Co. of Oakbrook, Ill., which owns the dredge.
The Coast Guard said unexpected rough weather drove the barge, a dredge called Northerly Island, from its moorings and was the cause of the accident.
A gale blew a dredge into the only bridge to Hatteras Island today, severing the span and stranding thousands of people without power.
It is simply unseemly to dredge up pitiful lives for the sake of public titillation.
Baghdad maintains the border should be redrawn to include all the waterway as Iraqi, and that Iraq should have the sole right to dredge it of mines and other war debris.
At Carolina Beach, N.C., heavy rain and wind caused erosion almost as fast as a dredge pumped sand in a $1.4 million beach replenishment project.
Thousands of people were stranded without power Friday on Hatteras Island after gale-force winds tore a dredge from its moorings and slammed it into the Bonner Bridge, toppling a 369-foot segment.