dredging machine

noun

1. dredge.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dredging machine¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Roraima state fire and rescue officials said in a statement that the boys had drowned, without mentioning the dredging machine.

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“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?”

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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.

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What was his dredging machine?

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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.”

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