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Dredge means Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:.
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/dɹɛd͡ʒ/ · noun
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:.
A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.
Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers.
to dredge up someone's unsavoury past
Friday night’s crowning victory at The Hawthorns was the 25th in 30 league matches since Antonio Conte’s decisive re-gearing of his team in September, the tactical switches that have coaxed such a thrilling run from this team of bolt-ons and upcycled squad players, most notably Victor Moses, who was dredged out of the laundry bin in the autumn to become a key part of the title surge.
It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley
Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier.
Use dredge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dredge means Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:.
Common synonyms include bullimong, drag.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.
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