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Dredger   Listen
noun
Dredger  n.  
1.
One who fishes with a dredge.
2.
A dredging machine.





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"Dredger" Quotes from Famous Books



... usual too, through the double gates, a continuous line of taxi-cabs glided down the inclined approach and up again, like an endless chain of dredger-buckets, pouring in the passengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off the diminishing minutes of peace. It was the hour of the boat-trains to Holland, to Hamburg, and ...
— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad
... dredger was probably the drageoir of France; in low Latin, dragerium, or drageria, in which comfits (dragdes) were kept. Roquefort says, "The ladies wore a little spice-box, in shape like a watch, to carry dragles, and it was ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... an interlude—descriptive of the various biological implements in use in the ship and on shore. The otter trawl, the Agassiz trawl, the 'D' net, and the ordinary dredger. ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott


Words linked to "Dredger" :   dredge, lighter, flatboat


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