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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DREDGE, n.
1. A dragnet for taking oysters, etc.
2. A mixture of oats and barley sown together.
DREDGE, v.t. To take, catch or gather with a dredge.
DREDGE, v.t. To sprinkle flour on roast meat.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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: dredge, drag]
3: remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (dredged; dredging) Date: 1508 transitive verb 1. a. to dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge — often used with up b. to deepen (as a waterway) with a dredging machine 2. to bring to light by deep searching — often used with up <dredging up memories> intransitive verb 1. to use a dredge 2. to search deeply • dredger noun II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Old English *drecge; akin to Old English dræge dragnet, dragan to draw Date: 1602 1. an apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net used especially for gathering fish and shellfish 2. a machine for removing earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube 3. a barge used in dredging III. transitive verb (dredged; dredging) Etymology: obsolete dredge, noun, sweetmeat, from Middle English drage, drege, from Anglo-French dragee, modification of Latin tragemata sweetmeats, from Greek trag?mata, plural of trag?ma sweetmeat, from tr?gein to gnaw Date: 1596 to coat (food) by sprinkling (as with flour) • dredger noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. a (often foll. by up) bring up (lost or hidden material) as if with a dredge (don't dredge all that up again). b (often foll. by away, up, out) bring up or clear (mud etc.) from a river, harbour, etc. with a dredge. 2 tr. clean (a harbour, river, etc.) with a dredge. 3 intr. use a dredge. --n. an apparatus used to scoop up oysters, specimens, etc., or to clear mud etc., from a river or sea bed. Etymology: 15th-c. Sc. dreg, perh. rel. to MDu. dregghe 2. v.tr. 1 sprinkle with flour, sugar, etc. 2 (often foll. by over) sprinkle (flour, sugar, etc.) on. Etymology: obs. dredge sweetmeat f. OF dragie, dragee, perh. f. L tragemata f. Gk tragemata spices

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dredges, dredging, dredged) When people dredge a harbour, river, or other area of water, they remove mud and unwanted material from the bottom with a special machine in order to make it deeper or to look for something. Police have spent weeks dredging the lake but have not found his body. VERB: V n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Job 24:6). See CORN.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

drej: A mixture of oats and barley (Job 24:6 the King James Version margin; the King James Version "corn"; the Revised Version (British and American) "provender"). The Hebrew word is belil, usually "mixed grain," ZDMG, XLVIII, 236: grain not ground and boiled in water. Compare Job 6:5; Isa 30:24.

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