Definitions for dredges

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Spelling: [drej]

IPA: /drɛdʒ/

Dredges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in dredges (ddeegrs).

Definitions for dredges

noun

1. Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
2. a barge on which such a machine is mounted.
3. a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.

Verb phrases

1. dredge up, to unearth or bring to notice: to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search:

verb (used with object)

1. to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of.
2. to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge.
3. to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a dredge.

Origin of dredges

1425-75; late Middle English (Scots) dreg-, Old English *drecg(e); see dray, draw

Examples for dredges

Remove some shallots from the buttermilk and dredge in the seasoned flour mixture.

They get $8 million to dredge the channel for pleasure boats to sail to Catalina Island.

Let me go ahead and dredge this up before someone else does.

Brush with milk, dredge with sugar, and bake for about 1/2 hour.

Having cleaned the fish, and cut off the fins, dredge them with flour.

This whole project could be fruitful and dredge up even more dirt on Nixon.

dredge the fruits and nuts with flour and fold them into the mixture.

After a while turn them, and salt and dredge the other side.

Then wipe the pieces, season them with pepper and salt, and dredge them with flour.

Perhaps some of them might dredge up some outrage over the message behind what Karzai did to the United States yesterday.