名詞 dredge:

1. a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

動詞 dredge:

1. cover before cooking
2. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
   同義詞：drag
3. remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

1. A barge or boat equipped with a dredge.
   挖泥船裝有挖掘機的船
2. Can we dredge the river to make it deeper?
   我們能不能把這條河疏浚得深一點？

dredge

n.（名詞）
Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
挖掘機：裝有鏟斗或吸泥設備，用于挖深港口與水道及水下開采的各種機器
Nautical A boat or barge equipped with a dredge.
【航?！?/i> 挖泥船：裝有挖掘機的船或貨船
An implement consisting of a net on a frame, used for gathering shellfish.
撈網(wǎng)框架：在框架上裝網(wǎng)，用于撈貝殼類生物的裝置
v.（動詞）
dredged,dredg.ing,dredg.es
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To clean, deepen, or widen with a dredge.
用挖掘機清除、加深或加寬
To bring up with a dredge:
用挖泥機挖出淤泥：
例句：
dredged up the silt.
挖出淤泥

To come up with; unearth:
挖出；使顯露：
例句：
dredged up bitter memories.
挖掘苦澀的記憶

v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To use a dredge:
使用挖掘機：
例句：
dredging for alluvial gold.
用挖掘機找沖積金礦

來源：
Middle English dreg-
中古英語 dreg-
in dreg-boat [boat for dredging] ; akin to Old English dragan [to draw]
在 dreg-boat之中 [挖泥的船] ；類似于 古英語 dragan [拉]

dredge
dredge 2

v.tr.（及物動詞）
dredged,dredg.ing,dredg.es
To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar.
在（食物）上撒粉末，如面粉或糖粉

來源：
From obsolete dredge [a sweetmeat]
源自 廢語 dredge [甜食]
from Middle English dragge
源自 中古英語 dragge
from Old French dragie
源自 古法語 dragie
alteration of Latin tragômata [confectionary]
拉丁語 tragômata的變化 [蜜餞]
from Greek tragômata [pl. of] tragôma [sweetmeat] * see ter…-
源自 希臘語 tragômata [] tragôma的復數(shù) [甜食] *參見 ter…-