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dredge
noun
1. An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.
2. Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
3. Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
4. An apparatus usually in the form of an oblong iron frame with an attached bag net used especially for gathering fish and shellfish.
5. A machine for removing earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube.
verb
1. To dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge.
2. To deepen (as a waterway) with a machine.
3. To bring to light by deep searching.
4. To use a dredge.
5. To search deeply.
verb-intransitive
1. To use a dredge: dredging for alluvial gold.
verb-transitive
1. To bring up with a dredge: dredged up the silt.
2. To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.
3. To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.
4. To come up with; unearth: dredged up bitter memories.
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Top Words by points |
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Word Game |
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dredge | 9 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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re | 2 |
de | 3 |
ed | 3 |
er | 2 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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erg | 4 |
ree | 3 |
red | 4 |
reg | 4 |
gee | 4 |
ged | 5 |
ere | 3 |
dee | 4 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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reed | 5 |
edge | 6 |
eger | 5 |
rede | 5 |
redd | 6 |
dreg | 6 |
dree | 5 |
geed | 6 |
gree | 5 |
dere | 5 |
deer | 5 |
deed | 6 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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reded | 7 |
greed | 7 |
edger | 7 |
edged | 8 |
dreed | 7 |
6 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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dredge | 9 |