A dredger is any device, machine, or vessel that is used to excavate and remove material from the bottom of a body of water. Dredging is also used as a technique for fishing for certain species of edible clams and crabs, see fishing dredge. It is also used as a way to replenish sand on some public beaches, where sand has been lost because of coastal erosion. This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable. Send us feedback about these examples.Dredging Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'dredge.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, See More Brian Amaral,, Sand will be brought in from offshore via a dredge and pumped onto the beach in a slurry. Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023 Some prep work has been done on the site, including bringing dredge spoil to serve as the foundation (the private developer wasn’t directly involved in this) and geotechnical investigations. Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2023 Preserving and restoring wetlands together with other water retention can often provide the level of flood control otherwise provided by expensive dredge operations and levees. 2023 For lifelong Cedar Lake residents like Police Chief William Fisher and Pine Crest Marine owner Bob Gross, watching the dredge barge floating on the water is a little surreal. João Paulo Pires, Washington Post, 18 Apr. Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 23 June 2023 In one community, two children were pulled into a river by the wake of a mining dredge and drowned. Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 2 July 2023 Working with 1 ball at a time, dredge in flour, and shake off excess.
Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2023 Set up dredge bowls: Place flour in a shallow dish. Noun Disposal sites for dredge material will also be used throughout the project area, and locks will be strengthened to better allow for barges with a draft greater than 9 feet. Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023 Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023 Instead of workers dredging rivers, which can result in faster rivers, courses were rebuilt to meander. John Benson, cleveland, 26 July 2023 Where the fungal era has been about venerating unknowable nonhuman maybe-intelligence and believing that hope can be dredged from ruin, the metabolic era is about submission, subsumption by the great enzyme, the desire for transformative annihilation. Ben Tracy, CBS News, 28 July 2023 Designed to reduce flooding and enhance water quality along Big Creek, the extensive work includes dredging the existing Upper Ridgewood Lake, replacing all inlets and outlets, and installing micropools and native plantings to stabilize the basin. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 July 2023 Typical deep sea mining involves dredging the bottom of the ocean with giant robotic shovels. 2023 Dredge tomato slices in remaining 1/4 cup flour dip in egg mixture, and dredge in cornmeal mixture. 2023 Imported fresh from Spain, the sardines are marinated in vinegar, coriander and cumin, then dredged in spiced flour and fried to a crisp, with sour orange and onions. Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2023 The Louisiana and Arkansas state governments are planning a $3 million, multi-faceted study about dredging the Red River. Verb Investigators dredged the Colorado River looking for another gun supposedly dumped there almost a decade earlier but didn't find it.
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