Definitions for dredger

dredger dredg·er

Spelling: [drej-er]
IPA: /ˈdrɛdʒ ər/

Dredger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in dredger (ddeegrr).

Definitions for dredger

noun

  1. dredge1 (def 1).
  2. a person who uses a dredge.
  3. a container with a perforated top for sprinkling flour, sugar, etc., on food for cooking.

Origin of dredger

First recorded in 1500-10; dredge1 + -er1

Examples for dredger

This dredger raised about 30 tons per hour at the cost of 2d.

He climbed over the dredger, which was lying alongside, and dropped from her into a small water-logged punt.

The conditions laid down for this dredger were that it should float in 18 in.

Figs. 3393 and 3394 show the arrangement of the pumps on a pair of compound engines for a dredger.

It consists of a huge paddle-wheel with buckets like those of a dredger, that fills a trough that runs down into the fields.

In building a second dredger this might of course be greatly reduced.

Jack Harvey, who had long ere this learned the necessity of quick obedience aboard the dredger, hastened to obey.

Somebody put him just where he put us—aboard a dredger; and he must have struck a Tartar as bad as Haley.

The dredger and the three shielded derricks hadn't gotten into action yet.

And he sketched rapidly the adventures that had befallen himself and Harvey since their captivity aboard the dredger.

Word Value for dredger
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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