Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - dredge
Dredge
dredge
1. v. & n. --v. 1 tr. a (often foll. by up) bring up (lost or hidden material) as if with a dredge (don't dredge all that up again). b (often foll. by away, up, out) bring up or clear (mud etc.) from a river, harbour, etc. with a dredge. 2 tr. clean (a harbour, river, etc.) with a dredge. 3 intr. use a dredge. --n. an apparatus used to scoop up oysters, specimens, etc., or to clear mud etc., from a river or sea bed. Etymology: 15th-c. Sc. dreg, perh. rel. to MDu. dregghe 2. v.tr. 1 sprinkle with flour, sugar, etc. 2 (often foll. by over) sprinkle (flour, sugar, etc.) on. Etymology: obs. dredge sweetmeat f. OF dragie, dragee, perh. f. L tragemata f. Gk tragemata spices
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I. verb (~d; dredging) Date: 1508 transitive verb 1. to dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a ~, to deepen (as a waterway) with a dredging machine, to bring to light by deep searching, intransitive verb to use a ~, to search deeply, ~r noun II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Old English *drecge; akin to Old English dræge dragnet, dragan to draw Date: 1602 an apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net used especially for gathering fish and shellfish, a machine for removing earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube, a barge used in dredging, III. transitive verb (~d; dredging) Etymology: obsolete ~, noun, sweetmeat, from Middle English drage, drege, from Anglo-French dragee, modification of Latin tragemata sweetmeats, from Greek tragēmata, plural of tragēma sweetmeat, from trōgein to gnaw Date: 1596 to coat (food) by sprinkling (as with flour), ~r noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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