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noun
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Also called: dredge. a vessel used for dredging, often bargelike and sometimes equipped with retractable steel piles that are driven into the bottom for stability
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another name for dredge 1
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Etymology
Origin of dredger1
First recorded in 1500–10; dredge 1 + -er 1
Origin of dredger2
Example Sentences
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Kinmen residents in recent years have reported seeing an increase in sand dredger vessels from China, which take sand from the ocean floor, as well as fishing ships, close to its coast.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Samuel Denapo: Because after we establish this fish trap, the dredger will come and they will put their pipe there, they will start sand-filling everything.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
The 75 families who lived on Tatuoca island began to question the benefits of the port complex expansion in 2009 when a dredger began scooping up chunks of the seabed to accommodate big ships.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
The Scottish-registered scallop dredger Cornelis Gert Jan arrived back in the UK in the early hours of Thursday morning, after leaving Le Havre the previous evening.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2021
He didn’t think it was necessary to use the oyster dredger.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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