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Definition of Dredging
1. matter that is dredged up [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dredging
Literary usage of Dredging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Interim Report of the Committee for dredging on the North and East Coasts of ...
In I860 the few weeks available for dredging, before the meeting of the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Having thus briefly noticed them, * few practical observations on dredging, as
more immediately applicable to British rivers, have still to be mentioned. ..."
3. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1905)
"the large holdings suited to dredging, much bore-hole prospecting took place ...
dredging in the Urals."—Five bucket-dredges for use on the Tura river were ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"It was thought that the admirable facilities for dredging possessed by this ...
It is planned that this dredging of the bottom of Vineyard Sound shall be ..."
5. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1909)
"dredging FOR COAL: A Description of the Method of Mining in the Mission Field,
... I. GOLD dredging IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: A Description of the dredging ..."
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