dredge

Plural: dredges

Noun

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
• Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
• A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
• Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
• A dredging machine.
• Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
• An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
• The act of dredging.
• Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
• A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
• A mixture of oats and barley.

Verb

Verb Forms: dredged, dredging, dredges

• To clear or dig with a dredge; to coat food in flour.
• cover before cooking
  • "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"
• 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
• To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
• To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
• To unearth.
• To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.

Examples

• Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier.
• He had to dredge his memory for a word that used the obscure Q tile.
• to dredge up someone's unsavoury past

Synonyms

drag, bullimong

Anagrams of dredge