

It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation.The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.Others specialize in dredging operations required for bridges and dams or for harbors.Fearing more floods, the state had the river dredged.

2 DF to cover food lightly with flour, sugar etc → dredge something ↔ up → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus dredge From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water, Civil, Food dredge dredge / dredʒ / verb 1 TTW TEC to remove mud or sand from the bottom of a river, harbour etc, or to search for something by doing this They dredged for oysters.
