- any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
- a barge on which such a machine is mounted.
- a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.
- to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of.
- to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge.
- to use a dredge.
- dredge up,
- to unearth or bring to notice: We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.
- to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search: Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
- to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour.
- a machine, in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device, used to remove material from a riverbed, channel, etc
- another name for dredger 1 (def. 1)
- to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge
- to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag
- to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc
