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
A modern dredging machine, 123 ft. long, beam 26 ft., breadth over all, 11 ft., will raise 180 tons of mud and clay per hour, 11 feet from water-line.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
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 Ballou, Maturin Murray
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