(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.
Lid
Definition:
(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(4) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(5) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(6) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(7) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(8) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(9) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(10) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(11) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(12) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(13) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(14) The occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lid is reviewed with emphasis upon the incidence, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and methods of treatment.
(15) Surgical techniques are based upon removal of fat from each of the two or three so-called compartments within the upper or lower lid.
(16) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(17) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(18) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(19) She will outline her case in a speech at the Oxford media conference, which will be the first time Labour has lifted the lid on the all-party talks on Leveson.
(20) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.