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Dredger   Listen
noun
Dredger  n.  
1.
One who fishes with a dredge.
2.
A dredging machine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dredger" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ends of the frame to a stout rope, so that when the bag is dragged along by the rope the edge of one of the scrapers rests on the ground, and scrapes whatever it touches into the bag. The oyster-dredger takes one of these machines in his boat, and when he has reached the oyster-bed the dredge is tossed overboard; as soon as it has sunk to the bottom the rope is paid out sufficiently to prevent it from pulling the dredge directly upwards, and is then made fast while the boat goes ahead. The dredge ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley



Words linked to "Dredger" :   flatboat, barge, hoy



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