dredge
pronunciation
How to pronounce dredge in British English:
UK [dredʒ]
How to pronounce dredge in American English:
US [dredʒ]
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- Noun:
- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
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- Verb:
- cover before cooking
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
Word Origin
- dredge
- dredge: English has two distinct words dredge, neither with a particularly well-documented past. Dredge ‘clear mud, silt, etc from waterway’ [16] may be related in some way to the 15thcentury Scottish term dreg-boat, and similarities have been pointed out with Middle Dutch dregghe ‘drag-net’, although if the two are connected, it is not clear who borrowed from whom.It has also been suggested that it is related ultimately to drag. Dredge ‘sprinkle with sugar, flour, etc’ [16] is a verbal use based on a now obsolete noun dredge, earlier dradge, which meant ‘sweet’. This was borrowed from Old French dragie (its modern French descendant gave English dragée [19]), which may be connected in some way to Latin tragēmata and Greek tragémata ‘spices, condiments’ (these Latin and Greek terms, incidentally, may play some part in the obscure history of English tracklements ‘condiments to accompany meat’ [20], which the English food writer Dorothy Hartley claimed to have ‘invented’ on the basis of an earlier – but unrecorded – dialect word meaning more generally ‘appurtenances’).=> dragée
- dredge (n.)
- late 15c., in Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," perhaps ultimately from root of drag (possibly via Middle Dutch dregghe "drag-net"). The verb is attested from c. 1500 in Scottish. Related: Dredged; dredging.
Example
- 1. Last month it added ports to the list , promising to spend 54 billion reais to expand and dredge public ports and to improve landside access over the next five years .
- 2. It is also planning to dredge a series of access channels for ports , and build a railway that will transport coal from central colombia to the caribbean harbour of santa marta .
- 3. She said she couldn 't imagine being in same room with the people I 'd told her stories about or why I 'd want to dredge up painful memories from so many years back .
- 4. It is a story every banker in dubai likes to tell : in the 1950s the emirate borrowed money from kuwait to dredge dubai creek , the first of many leveraged bets on infrastructure .
- 5. In the background you may see one more dredge .