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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dredged} (dr[e^]jd); 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dredge \Dredge\, noun [OE. dragge, F. drag['e]e, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh'mata, fr. trw'gein to gnaw.] A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] --Kersey.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dredge \Dredge\, verb (used with an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), noun [F. dr['e]ge, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. [root]73. 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dredge
noun: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
verb
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 power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "dredge": avulse, besprinkle, bore, bread, breathe, brew, burrow, color, crumb, cut out, decoct, delve, deracinate, dig, dig out, dig up, digger, dike, disentangle, dot, drag up, draw, draw out, draw up, dredge up, dredger, drill, driller, drive, dust, dye, entincture, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excavator, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, fish up, flavor, flour, furrow, gather up, get out, gouge, gouge out, groove, groundhog, grub, grub up, haul up, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, instill, leaven, lower, mine, miner, navvy, penetrate, pepper, permeate, pervade, pick out, pick up, pluck out, pluck up, powder, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, root out, root up, sandhog, sap, sapper, saturate, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, season, shovel, sink, spade, spatter, speck, speckle, splatter, spot, sprinkle, steam shovel, steep, stud, suffuse, take out, take up, tear out, temper, tincture, tinge, transfuse, trench, trough, tunnel, tunneler, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest out
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dredge (Job 24:6). See {CORN}.
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