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dredges definition and meaning

n. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
n. Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
v. t. To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
n. A mixture of oats and barley.
v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.

Crossword clues for dredges

- Clear river bottom
- Clear the bed of (a harbour, say)
- Doctor crept along and cleaned river
- Dragnet
- Excavate (mud)
- Excavating machine
- Machine for deepening a channel
- sprinkle with flour
- Doctor moves slowly and removes the mud
- Removes silt
- Scrapes (river bottom)
- Sprinkles (with flour)
- Sprinkles (with sugar)
- Trawls (riverbed)


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