dredge : Idioms & Phrases

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dredge ∨ dredger

  • a flour box.
Webster 1913

dredge up

  • verb mention something unpleasant from the past
    drag up.
    • Drag up old stories
WordNet

Dredging box

  • . (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
Webster 1913

dredging bucket

  • noun a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed
WordNet

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.
Webster 1913

Oyster dredge

  • a rake or small dragnet of bringing up oyster from the bottom of the sea.
Webster 1913