dredge

• IPA^(key): /dɹɛd͡ʒ/

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Dredging

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From Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot (from Old English *dreċġ); or alternatively from Middle Dutch dregghe (“drag-net”), probably ultimately from the same root as drag.

dredge (plural dredges)

1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
   1. A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
   2. A dredging machine.
      • 1923, Marine Engineer and Naval Architect - Volume 46‎^[1], page 162:

        The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.

   4. An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. The act of dredging.
   • 2021, Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay:

     A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.

3. Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.^[1]

• dredgeboat

dredge (third-person singular simple present dredges, present participle dredging, simple past and past participle dredged)

1. To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
2. To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
   • 1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:

     Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers.

3. (transitive, usually with "up") To unearth.

   to dredge up someone's unsavoury past

   • 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Friday night’s crowning victory at The Hawthorns was the 25th in 30 league matches since Antonio Conte’s decisive re-gearing of his team in September, the tactical switches that have coaxed such a thrilling run from this team of bolt-ons and upcycled squad players, most notably Victor Moses, who was dredged out of the laundry bin in the autumn to become a key part of the title surge.

From Middle English dragge, from Old French dragee, dragie, from Latin tragēmata, from Ancient Greek τραγήματα (tragḗmata, “spices”), plural of τράγημα (trágēma, “dried fruit”).

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Dredging (cooking)

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dredge (countable and uncountable, plural dredges)

1. (cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
2. (uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.

   Synonym: bullimong

   • 1991, Edward Miller, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500:

     It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley

dredge (third-person singular simple present dredges, present participle dredging, simple past and past participle dredged)

1. (cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.

   Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier.