dredging

dredge ¹  (drj)

n.

1. Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.

2. Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.

3. An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.

v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es

v.tr.

1. To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.

2. To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt.

3. To come up with; unearth: dredged up bitter memories.

v.intr.

To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold.

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[Middle English dreg- (in dreg-boat, boat for dredging); akin to Old English dragan, to draw.]

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dredge ²  (drj)

tr.v. dredged, dredg·ing, dredg·es

To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.

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[From obsolete dredge, a sweetmeat, from Middle English dragge, from Old French dragie, alteration of Latin tragmata, confectionary, from Greek, pl. of tragma, sweetmeat; see ter-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

Translations

dredging¹ [ˈdredʒɪŋ] N → dragado m, obras fpl de dragado

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dredging² [ˈdredʒɪŋ] N (Culin) → espolvoreado m

dredging¹

n → Ausbaggern nt

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dredging²

n (Cook) → Bestreuen nt

dredging [ˈdrɛdʒɪŋ] n → dragaggio

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dredging [ˈdrɛdʒɪŋ] n → dragaggio