Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dredge"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Dredge
(Job 24:6). See {CORN}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dredge \Dredge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dredged}; 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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. ?, fr. ? to gnaw.]
A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] --Kersey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dredge \Dredge\, n. [F. dr[`e]ge, dreige, fish net, from a word
akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet
dragnet. ????. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dredge
n : a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
v 1: cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before
frying it"
2: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
valuable or lost [syn: {drag}]
3: remove with a dredge, usually from a bottom of a body of
water
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