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dredge 1
(drĕj)n.
1. Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
2. Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
3. An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.
v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es
v.tr.
1. To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.
2. To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt.
3. To come up with; unearth: dredged up bitter memories.
v.intr.
To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold.
[Middle English dreg- (in dreg-boat, boat for dredging); akin to ; akin to Old English dragan, to draw.]
dredge 2
(drĕj)tr.v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es
To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.
[From obsolete dredge, a sweetmeat, from Middle English dragge, from Old French dragie, alteration of Latin tragēmata, confectionary, from Greek, pl. of tragēma, sweetmeat; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]
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dredge
(drɛdʒ)n
1. (Mechanical Engineering) Also called: dredger a machine, in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device, used to remove material from a riverbed, channel, etc
2. (Mechanical Engineering) another name for dredger1
vb
3. (Mechanical Engineering) to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge
4. (Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag
[C16: perhaps ultimately from Old English dragan to draw; see drag]
dredge
(drɛdʒ)vb
(Cookery) to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc
[C16: from Old French dragie, perhaps from Latin tragēmata spices, from Greek]
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dredge1
(drɛdʒ)n., v. dredged, dredg•ing. n.
1. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as by means of a scoop or a series of buckets.
2. a barge on which such a machine is mounted.
3. a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.
v.t. 4. clear out with a dredge: to dredge a river.
5. to remove (sand, silt, etc.) from the bottom of a river or other body of water.
v.i. 6. to use a dredge.
7. dredge up, to discover and reveal; unearth.
[1425–75]
dredge2
(drɛdʒ)v.t. dredged, dredg•ing.
to coat (food) with a powdery substance, as flour.
[1590–1600; v. use of dredge mixture of grains, late Middle English dragge, dregge, appar. identical with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie sweetmeat, confection < Old French (see dragée)]
dredg′er, n.
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dredge
Past participle: dredged
Gerund: dredging
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dredge
To cover with a sprinkling of flour or sugar.
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| Noun | 1. |  dredge - a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbeddredger - a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging dredging bucket - a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed scoop shovel, scoop - the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe |
| Verb | 1. | dredge - cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" flour - cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it" |
| 2. | dredge - search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | |
| 3. | dredge - remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water |
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dredge
1 [dredʒ]A. N (Mech) → draga f
B. VT [+ river, canal] → dragar
dredge up VT + ADV → sacar con draga (fig) [+ unpleasant facts] → sacar a la luz
dredge
2 [dredʒ] N (Culin) → espolvoreador mCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
dredge1
(dredʒ) verbˈdredger noun a boat with apparatus for dredging. draga
dredge2
(dredʒ) verb to sprinkle (food with sugar etc). pancakes dredged with sugar.espolvorear
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