(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(2) The previous government advanced five major dredge projects involving dumping in the marine park,” he said.
(3) Documents obtained under freedom of information reveal huge uncertainty over the investment needed to maintain water quality following dredging to expand the Abbot Point port, north of Bowen in Queensland.
(4) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(5) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(6) In ongoing lawsuits objecting to the island reclamation scheme , the Jakarta Legal Aid association has argued these new islands are occupying traditional fishing grounds, while the sediment and dredging work have driven away fish from the remaining waters.
(7) Dredging creates turbidity in the water that reduces the amount of light reaching the coral, affecting photosynthesis, while silt that settles on the coral interferes with its ability to feed itself.
(8) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(9) Dover Harbour Board has applied for a licence to dredge Goodwin Sands, which had been proposed as a marine conservation zone, for aggregate to be used in the expansion and development of Dover port.
(10) We would like to see the dredging – if it does take place – it doesn’t take place in important times in seal biology.
(11) However, a local campaign called Save Our Sands has been established in an attempt to stop the dredging from happening, and has gathered more than 5,500 signatures on an online petition to prevent it.
(12) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
(13) So let's end the simplistic nonsense that leads us to focus only on concrete defences and destructive dredging, and instead take what is ultimately a more rational and integrated approach.
(14) It exacerbates an environment of disaffection and disempowerment and does nothing but isolate the very community that best understands these challenges.” Race relations have reached a low ebb following the release of the government’s anti-terrorism laws, which many Muslims say have dredged up Islamophobia in the community by equating terrorism with Islam.
(15) Rooke said dredging was part of the solution, "but not the whole solution".
(16) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
(17) In between taking up the rice harvest and dredging his irrigation canals, however, he must contemplate a new threat to his family and livelihood, one that may well prove more deadly than any of Egypt's previous invaders.
(18) The site, called Reef Facts , addresses the contentious decision to allow the dredging and dumping of 5m tonnes of seabed sediment within the Great Barrier Reef marine park in order to expand the Abbot Point port.
(19) However, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said electronic pingers could already be used under current EU nature laws, which also protect porpoises from trawling, dredging, pile driving and noise from military sonars.
(20) The case has dredged up painful memories for other victims of child abuse, who are now also coming forward in their hundreds to seek counselling.
Dredger
Definition:
(n.) One who fishes with a dredge.
(n.) A dredging machine.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(2) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(3) This explains Timah's current strategy, "Go offshore, go deeper", as well as the newest addition to its offshore fleet: a massive bucketwheel dredger with a long, chainsaw-like arm that can churn up tin ore from 70 metres below the seabed, nearly twice as deep as the current dredgers manage.
(4) Most of the work will be carried out from the banks because it is safer, but workers also hope to use an amphibious dredger and could operate from pontoons in the river.
(5) Swansea crown court heard that Powell's boat was a state-of the art dredger.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sand dredgers in Poyang Lake by Hamashu village.
(7) We used to make more money, but now there is too much competition,” complains a crew member aboard one of the dredgers.
(8) The dredgers, he explains, descend a wooden ladder into the depths of the lagoon, armed with only a bucket and the will to live.
(9) As silent part-owners of the scallop dredger, Powell's father, Clinton, his mother, Andrea, and wife Lisa, were fined £1,000 each.
(10) They operated 12 dredgers and at least 40 support craft.
(11) For the Millennium Dome, for instance, he sliced an old Thames-going sand dredger in two from top to bottom.
(12) Huge industrial dredgers moved into the bay to discharge their loads and start creating the first four islands in 2013, but that work was brought to a jarring halt last April .
(13) The authors have measured the power and endurable grip strength by five times repetition at five second intervals on post-office clerks (indoor service and outdoor service) and the personnel of harbor construction office (office workers and crew of dredger).
(14) He has scrunched up an entire stone corner of the London School of Economics into a rocky tumble, hanging precipitously above the street in Aldwych, and sliced a Thames dredger in half and anchored it outside the Millennium Dome.
(15) Everyone who was flooded says the same; the people here have been just extraordinary.” And the dredgers, brought in by the Environment Agency under sustained local pressure, have now almost finished, clearing 8km of riverbed, removing 130,000 cubic metres of silt, returning the river Parrett to its 1960s profile.
(16) Encircling the island are the dredgers and the suction ships and the thousands of illegal pontoons sucking up ore from the seabed like mechanised mosquitoes.
(17) River dredgers, environmental planners and field officers did not meet that definition.
(18) In the past few years, China has used more cement than the US used in the entire 20th century Hundreds of dredgers may be on the lake on any given day, some the size of tipped-over apartment buildings.
(19) 2) Endurable grip strength (endurance: subtract lower value either at the fourth or fifth grip from the grip strength) of the indoor mail clerks and office workers has no correlation with age, but that of the others (the outdoor service and crew of dredger) has negative correlation with age.
(20) Fiery Cross Reef is one of several small islands in the South China Sea that China has been reclaiming, using dredger barges which scoop up sand and coral and pile it on to the reef.