What (who) is dredger - definition

EXCAVATION OF SEDIMENT, USUALLY UNDER WATER

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dredger

Something or someone that is tedious or boring.
People stopped hanging out with Greg because listening to his long stories about statistics was a real dredger.

dredger

(dredgers)

A dredger is a boat which is fitted with a special machine that is used to increase the size of harbours, rivers, and canals.

N-COUNT

Dredger

·noun A dredging machine.

II. Dredger ·noun One who fishes with a dredge.

III. Dredger ·noun A box with holes in its lid;

- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard;

- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

Wikipedia

Dredging

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines; and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value. In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a specialist floating plant, known as a dredger.

Dredging is carried out in many different locations and for many different purposes, but the main objectives are usually to recover material of value or use, or to create a greater depth of water. Dredges have been classified as suction or mechanical. Dredging systems can either be shore-based, brought to a location based on barges, or built into purpose built vessels.

Dredging has significant environmental impacts: it can disturb marine sediments, leading to both short- and long-term water pollution, destroy important seabed ecosystems, and can release legacy human-sourced toxins captured in the sediment. These environmental impacts can significantly hurt marine wildlife populations, contaminate sources of drinking water and interrupt economic activities such as fishing.

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Pronunciation examples for dredger

1. DREDGER:

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2. Oh, Dredger.

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3. His neck didn't survive the impact of Dredger landing on him.

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Examples of use of dredger

1. The dredger, which took four months to build, was sold to a private party, he said.

2. "It is the first dredger built by Adyard with technology from Ellicott Dredges of the United States.

3. An Egyptian dredger has sunk in the Suez canal, leaving one person dead and up to five others missing.

4. On the dredger, however, the celebrations for the opening of the Bahr El Ghazal River mask these difficulties.

5. There were 132 passengers on the pleasure boat when it struck the dredger Bowbelle in 1'8'. The Marchioness sank under the Cannon Street Railway Bridge.