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
A dredger is a boat which is fitted with a special machine that is used to increase the size of harbours, rivers, and canals. dredge a machine or ship used for digging or removing mud and sand from the bottom of a river, lake etc
a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it
1 (noun) The machine used to remove, by suction or scooping, sediment from the bottom of a water body 2 (verb) To remove sediment from the bottom of a water body
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
To excavate, create, or alter a water body Dredging destroys habitats and causes silting that can harm aquatic life Further environmental damage can occur if the dredging stirs up heavy metals or other hazardous substances in bottom sediments
To lightly coat food that is going to be fried with flour, breadcrumbs, or cornmeal The coating helps to brown the food and provides a crunchy surface Dredged foods need to be cooked immediately Breaded foods (those dredged in flour, dipped in egg then dredged again in breading) can be prepared and held before cooking
a fishing method that utilizes a bag dragged behind a vessel that scrapes the ocean bottom, usually to catch shellfish Dredges are often equiped with metal spikes in order to dig up the catch
To coat food with a dry mixture (usually seasoned flour or crumbs), either by sprinkling, rolling, or shaking the food in a bag with the flour or other ingredients
When people dredge a harbour, river, or other area of water, they remove mud and unwanted material from the bottom with a special machine in order to make it deeper or to look for something. Police have spent weeks dredging the lake but have not found his body. To coat (food) by sprinkling with a powder, such as flour or sugar
A shallow-draft barge used in one highly efficient method of placer mining; crawling over a water-soaked and presumably rich landscape, it washed a steady stream of gravel, depositing the waste behind it in windrows