Definition of Dredgings

1. dredging [n] - See also: dredging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dredgings

dreave
dreckier
dreckiest
dreckley
drecks
drecky
dredge
dredge up
dredged
dredger
dredgers
dredges
dredging
dredging bucket
dredgings (current term)
dredlocks
dreds
dree
dree one's weird
dreed
dreeing
dreely
dreep
drees
dreg
dreggier
dreggiest
dregginess
dreggish

Literary usage of Dredgings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1872)
"IN consequence of the interesting discoveries made in the dredgings carried on in Lake Superior in the summer of 1871 in the US steamer ' Search' (Reports ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1908)
"HAVING given in a former paper1 the results of assays of sea- water, bay-mud, dredgings from San Francisco bay, etc., and believing it might be interesting ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"The Tidal Regime of the River Mersey, as Affected by the Recent dredgings at the Bar in Liverpool Bay. By JAMES N. SHOOLBRED, BA (Lond. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"CONCERNING DEEP-SEA dredgings. BY PROF. L. AGASSI/.. * MT DEAR FRIEND: — On the point of starting for the Deep-Sea Dredging expedition, for which you have ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"DEEP-SEA dredgings. The remarkable extension of knowledge in this direction ... No revolution had taken place in science on account of the recent dredgings. ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"These bilateral holothurians first became known by the dredgings of the Challenger, and formed one of the most important additions to our knowledge of ..."

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