dredging machine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dredging machine
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Roraima state fire and rescue officials said in a statement that the boys had drowned, without mentioning the dredging machine.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021
He designed an early dredging machine and was a pioneer of diving equipment.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2011
Despite the mistakes—the list also includes some imported prefab houses that were devoured by Amazon bugs, and a supposedly super dredging machine that got hopelessly mired in Amazon mud—the progress at Jari is extraordinary.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the port of Havana an additional duty of 21-7/8 cents per ton is levied on all vessels for the support of the dredging machine.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
Five steel-pointed battering rams, each of four tons weight, are arranged in line upon each side of the chain of buckets of the dredging machine.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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