请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 dredging
释义

dredgingn.

Etymology: < dredge v.1 + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdredging.
a. The action of dredge v.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > drag-netting
dredging1622
dragging1768
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lxiii. 158 In Anno, 1583..I was at the dregging of Pearle Oysters, after the maner we dregge Oysters in England.
1765 J. Platt in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 52 To use dragnets as they do in drudging for oisters.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xx. 414 So far as dredgings and soundings enable us to decide.
b. concrete. That which is dredged up.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > diving or dredging > [noun] > dredging > that which is dredged up
dredging1881
1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xii. §474 It is curious that these two forms should present themselves in the same dredging.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 20 June 120/1 Depositing thereon dredgings from the river.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as dredging-bag, dredging-bucket, dredging-engine, dredging-gear, dredging-iron, dredging-machine, dredging-steamer, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment
dredge1471
clam-shell1508
drag1611
steam dredge1801
dredging-machine1830
hedgehog1838
bag and spoon1840
hydrophore1842
dredger1863
gold dredge1881
gold dredger1897
suction dredge1901
bucket dredge1907
cutter-dredge1913
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 33 The Stones..tore and totally destroyed our Drudging-bags.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 29 Drudging-engines.
1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 64 The dredging-machines..were invented and patented by a Mr. Israel Pownall in 1712.
1840 Evid. Hull Docks Com. 37 Excavation..done by the dredging-machine.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 600 Improved grappling or dredging-iron, for drawing from the water the bodies of persons..drowned.
1860 J. S. C. Abbott South & North 65 A few dredging-steamers were also slumbering upon the mud.
1872 Porcupine 29 June 198/3 Set the dredging-buckets to work, and scooped it all away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

> as lemmas

ˈdredging
ˈdredging n. ; attributive as dredging-box.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > scattering in small particles or sprinkling > sprinkling with powder
powdering1440
dredging1611
society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > spraying or sprinkling tools
dust-box1581
dredger1666
dredging-box1712
spreader1810
dredge-box1812
distributor1853
deflector1887
squirter1888
sprayer1891
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > scattering in small particles or sprinkling > sprinkling with powder > device for
dust-box1581
dredger1666
dredging-box1712
dredge-box1812
pulverizator1871
powder blower1875
powder gun1890
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rosti sanglant, a dredging with the powder of Hares bloud.
1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 14 Basting Ladles, Dripping Pans, and Drudging Boxes.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcvi. 34 [This] all the flour in his drudging-box had not been able to whiten.
1851 Beck's Florist Sept. 203 Sulphur is a well-known remedy, dusted on the leaves, while wet, from a dredging-box.
extracted from dredgev.2
<
n.1622
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 4:01:24