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  (drĕj) pronunciation
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 Old English dragan, to draw.]


dredge2 (drĕj) pronunciation
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.]


 
 

[DREHJ] To lightly coat food to be fried, as with flour, cornmeal or breadcrumbs. This coating helps brown the food. Chicken, for example, might be dredged with flour before frying.

 
Architecture: dredge


1. A floating excavator for removing earth or rock from under water. Usually accomplished by clamshell, power shovel, or cutterhead combined with a suction line.
2. To remove soil from an area under water.


 
process of excavating materials underwater. It is used to deepen waterways, harbors, and docks and for mining alluvial mineral deposits, including tin, gold, and diamonds.

The Dutch at an early period cleared their canals of silt with a pole to which was attached a bag held open by a steel ring. The apparatus, operated from the side of a stationary barge, was dragged along the bottom and then emptied into the barge.

Modern dredging equipment may be divided into four main classes. The grab dredge is used where the amount of excavation is relatively small. It consists of one or more grab buckets, operated by cranes mounted on a vessel or barge or sometimes on the shore. Each bucket has jaws that are hinged together. The bucket is lowered to the bottom with its jaws open and pointing down. When it sinks into the material to be dredged, its jaws close. The material can then be lifted to the surface and discharged into a hopper for removal to a disposal area. The dipper dredge, also known as the boom-and-dipper assembly, is similar in appearance to a land power shovel. It is used extensively in canal construction and was employed in the cutting of the Panama Canal.

The ladder-bucket dredge, a more elaborate type, is generally mounted on a self-propelling vessel built with a longitudinal well in the center, open to the water beneath for a considerable length. Mounted and hinged over the well is a long steel frame, which may be raised or lowered at will; it is equipped with a long string of buckets passing over sprockets at each end. The buckets, operating through the well, scoop up material from the bottom and discharge it into a chute that projects over the vessel's side to a hopper barge moored alongside or into a receiving hopper in the dredge itself.

The suction dredge, or
hydraulic dredge,
an entirely different type, is used principally where material such as sand or mud is to be removed. It consists of a flexible pipe connected at one end to a powerful centrifugal pump. At the other, open end there is usually a device designed to break up the material to be dredged. The open end of the pipe is lowered to the bottom, where the material to be dredged is mixed with water, pumped up, and then discharged into hopper barges. There the heavy material settles, and the surplus water is allowed to overflow.

Material from these dredges is sometimes pumped through pipes for long distances and used to build up low-lying ground. Hopper barges made to carry away and sink the material brought up by dredges are of a special type. In the space where the material is carried are hinged doors, or flaps, held closed by chains and opening downward. Around the space are watertight compartments to give the barge buoyancy. When the dredge is above the disposal area, the bottom doors are released and the material discharged; the doors are then closed again by winches.


 
Translations: Translations for: Dredge

Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. tr. - grave op, fiske op, bringe frem, opmudre, oprense, skrabe
v. intr. - arbejde med opmudringsmaskine
n. - muddermaskine, opmudringsfartøj, skrabevod

2.
v. tr. - overdrysse, strø på, stænke over

Nederlands (Dutch)
baggeren, uitbaggeren, dreggen, dreg, ophalen

Français (French)
1.
v. tr. - draguer, remonter qch à la drague
v. intr. - draguer (à la recherche de qch), remonter qch à la drague
n. - drague (vaisseau, filet)

2.
v. tr. - (Culin) saupoudrer de

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - ausbaggern, ausgraben, baggern, mit dem Bagger wegräumen
n. - (Schwimm)bagger, Dredsche

2.
v. - mit Mehl bestreuen, Mehl usw.streuen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - σκάβω το βυθό, εκβαθύνω, βυθοκορώ
n. - βυθοκόρος, φαγάνα

Italiano (Italian)
dragare, draga, rivangare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - dragar
n. - draga (f)

Русский (Russian)
вычерпывать, выкапывать, панировать

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. tr. - dragar, sacar a luz
v. intr. - dragar, sacar a luz
n. - draga, rastra

2.
v. tr. - espolvorear

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - fiska, rota fram
n. - släpnät, ostronskrapa

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
1. 疏浚机, 拖捞网, 挖泥船, 疏浚, 捞取, 挖掘, 发掘, 采捞, 深挖

2. 撒, 涂, 撒于

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. tr. - 撒, 塗, 撒於

2.
n. - 疏浚機, 拖撈網, 挖泥船
v. tr. - 疏浚, 撈取, 挖掘, 發掘
v. intr. - 疏浚, 採撈, 挖掘, 深挖

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. tr. - ~으로 제거하다, ~을 준설하다
v. intr. - 탐색하다, 물밑을 훑다
n. - 준설기, 준설 삼태기

2.
v. tr. - 밀가루를 뿌리다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 浚渫機, 底引き網
v. - 浚渫する, さらう, ふりかける, …にふりかける

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يرفع الوحل أو ما شابه من قاع النهر مثلا, يرش الدقيق أو السكر على الطعام (الاسم) أداة لرفع الوحل أو ما شابه من قاع نهر مثلا, مركب لالتقاط المحار‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מחפר-ים, מתקן להעלאת עצמים מקרקעית באר, נהר או ים‬
v. tr. - ‮חפר, העלה במחפר, ניקה (נמל או נהר) במתקן מיוחד‬
v. intr. - ‮השתמש במחפר-ים‬
v. tr. - ‮גלגל, זרה, בזק, זרה (קמח, סוכר וכו'), קימח‬


 
 

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