| 单词 | dredge |
| 释义 | dredge dredge1 /drej/, n. , v. , dredged, dredging. n. 1. Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like. 2. a barge on which such a machine is mounted. 3. a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc. v.t. 4. to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of. 5. to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge. v.i. 6. to use a dredge. 7. dredge up, a. to unearth or bring to notice: We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk. b. to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search: Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts. [1425-75; late ME (Scots) dreg-, OE *drecg(e); see DRAY, DRAW] dredge2 /drej/, v.t., dredged, dredging. Cookery. to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, esp. flour. [1590-1600; v. use of dredge (now obs. or dial.) mixture of grains, late ME dragge, dregge, appar. to be identified with ME drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection < AF drag(g)é, dragee, OF (see DRAGÉE); cf. similar dual sense of ML dragetum, dragium] |
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