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Dredging machine

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a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.

See also: Dredge



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As dredging machines remove the heavy metals from a Superfund site near the Thea Foss Waterway, construction crews are poised to build new condos.
The Hassan Group, Istanbul, Turkey, was established prior to World War II in 1939 by Hassan Sisman as the first producer of padding material utilizing nonwoven methods in Turkey Eventually the company added handmade cotton padding to its production capabilities and its small workshop was expanded soon after the war with the company's first dredging machine.
Some miners use huge dredging machines that frighten away the forest animals the Indians hunt.
 
 
 
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