Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)dredgea power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed Verbs
(v)dredgecover before cooking“dredge the chicken in flour before frying it” (v)dredge, dragsearch (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost (v)dredgeremove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water