What is the name meaning of DREDGE. Phrases containing DREDGE
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English : from Old French dragie, dragé ‘mixture of grains sown together’, hence probably an metonymic occupational name for a farmer or a grain merchant.
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English : variant of Dredge.
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English : variant of Dredge.German : from a Germanic personal name Trago, or a habitational name from a place named Drage, near Hamburg or in Schleswig-Holstein.Norwegian : variant of Drag, from the dative case.
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n.
One who fishes with a dredge.
n.
A mixture of oats and barley.
n.
A dredging machine.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dredge
n.
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
n.
A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
imp. & p. p.
of Dredge
v. t.
To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
n.
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
v. t.
To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
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.