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Definition of Dredger
1. Noun. A barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging.
Definition of Dredger
1. n. One who fishes with a dredge.
2. n. A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
Definition of Dredger
1. Noun. (nautical) A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed. ¹
2. Noun. a container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dredger
1. one that dredges [n -S] - See also: dredges
Medical Definition of Dredger
1. 1. One who fishes with a dredge. 2. A dredging machine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dredger
Literary usage of Dredger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Rivers and Canals: Relating to the Control and Improvement of by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1882)
"Bag and Spoon dredger; Bucket dredger; Hopper dredger ; Grapple dredger ; Ratchet
dredger; Dipper dredger; Sand Pump dredger—Type employed at Ymuiden ..."
2. The Rules of the Road at Sea: Comprising the Regulations for Preventing by Hubert Stuart Moore (1900)
"When any dredger is in such a situation that any of the working chains thereof
is taut, so as to be dangerous to passing vessels, the master of such dredger ..."
3. Trusts, Pools, and Corporations by William Zebina Ripley (1916)
"than it does upon the use of one form of dredger rather than another. ... With the
automatic dredger he gets 25 per cent of seconds and 75 per cent of ..."
4. Tidal Rivers: Their (1) Hydraulics, (2) Improvement, (3) Navigation by William Henry C. E. Wheeler (1893)
"By the aid of this dredger the rock is broken up into pieces ... The first dredger
constructed was 180 feet long, 40 feet broad, and 12 feet deep. ..."
5. Rivers and Canals: The Flow, Control, and Improvement of Rivers and the by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1896)
"dredgers:—Bag and Spoon; Bucket-Ladder dredger, Stationary and Hopper, details,
cost of machines, and cost of Dredging; Dipper Bucket dredger ; Grab Bucket ..."
6. Supplement to Spons ̓dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military by Edward Spon, Francis N. Spon (1880)
"1062 shews the dredger complete and arranged for operation. The dredger was first
started for Indian canal work, with the regulating apparatus designed by ..."
7. Life of Richard Trevithick: With an Account of His Inventions by Francis Trevithick (1872)
"HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM-dredger. THE late Mrs. Trevithick said that her husband was
good-tempered, and never gave trouble in home affairs, satisfied with the ..."
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