dredge

     

Dreging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location, mostly to keep waterways navigable. A dredge is a device for scraping or sucking the seabed, used for dredging. A dredger is a ship or boat equipped with a dredge (though in American usage, there is no added letter).

Trivia about dredge

  • To unearth by dragging along the bottom of a body of water
  • It means to dig soil from the bottom of a body of water; or the machine that does it
  • It means 'to lightly coat food with flour, crumbs, etc" before you fry it
  • Also sometimes done to harbors, it means to coat food with a dry ingredient like flour