dredge

dredge
    n 1: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or
         riverbed
    v 1: cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before
         frying it"
    2: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
       valuable or lost [syn: {dredge}, {drag}]
    3: remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body
       of water
    

Dredge \Dredge\, n. [OE. dragge, F. drag['e]e, dredge, also,
   sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL.
   tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh`mata, fr. trw`gein to
   gnaw.]
   A mixture of oats and barley. [Obs.] --Kersey.
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Dredge \Dredge\, v. t.
   To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
   --Beau. & Fl.
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   {Dredging box}.
   (a) Same as 2d {Dredger}.
   (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for
       sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. --Farrow.
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Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), n. [F. dr[`e]ge, dreige, fish net,
   from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small
   anchor, dregnet dragnet. [root]73. See {Draw}.]
   1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
      (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their
          beds.
      (b) A dredging machine.
      (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in
          collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
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   2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in
      water. --Raymond.
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Dredge \Dredge\ (dr[e^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dredged}
   (dr[e^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dredging}.]
   To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging
   machine. --R. Carew.
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   {Dredging machine}, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to
      scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of
      rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.
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Dredge
(Job 24:6). See {CORN}.
    

123 Moby Thesaurus words for "dredge":
      avulse, besprinkle, bore, bread, breathe, brew, burrow, color,
      crumb, cut out, decoct, delve, deracinate, dig, dig out, dig up,
      digger, dike, disentangle, dot, drag up, draw, draw out, draw up,
      dredge up, dredger, drill, driller, drive, dust, dye, entincture,
      eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excavator, excise, exsect,
      extract, extricate, fish up, flavor, flour, furrow, gather up,
      get out, gouge, gouge out, groove, groundhog, grub, grub up,
      haul up, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, instill,
      leaven, lower, mine, miner, navvy, penetrate, pepper, permeate,
      pervade, pick out, pick up, pluck out, pluck up, powder, pull,
      pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, root out,
      root up, sandhog, sap, sapper, saturate, scoop, scoop out,
      scrabble, scrape, scratch, season, shovel, sink, spade, spatter,
      speck, speckle, splatter, spot, sprinkle, steam shovel, steep,
      stud, suffuse, take out, take up, tear out, temper, tincture,
      tinge, transfuse, trench, trough, tunnel, tunneler, unearth,
      unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest out