Definition of "dredge" []

• Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining. (noun)
• Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge. (noun)
• An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish. (noun)
• To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge. (verb-transitive)
• To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And the dry-wet-dry dredge is messy enough, I can't imagine even more of a disaster!"
• "Outside he can dredge from a boat at his service; or swim and rest in the sun to go back invigorated into his laboratory."
• "The dredge is actually working between the Thetis and the sand."