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
“So perhaps being ‘killed by Smoot’s dredging machine’ could have been viewed as underlining, by his family, that Bryant suffered a Stateside but quite patriotic death, equivalent to the fates to be risked by his friends who were being drafted?”
From Washington Post
About five years ago, after seeing the memorable inscription on Lyles’s gravestone in a Fairfax County cemetery — “Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine” — Jason Lefkowitz, a software developer who used to live in Alexandria, became fascinated with the young man’s story.
From Washington Post
What was his dredging machine?
From Washington Post
The marker is engraved with the scantest details of Lyles’s life: “Born May 8, 1898. Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine Sept. 1, 1917.”
From Washington Post
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