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dredger

[drej-er] / ˈdrɛdʒ ər /
NOUN
miner
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In June 2013, Gideon Mensah from Ghana signed up to work on the TN scalop dredger Noordzee.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2024

“They hide machinery in the forest and even sink their dredger barges into the rivers. After they retrieve them, they still work.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Samuel Denapo: Because after we establish this fish trap, the dredger will come and they will put their pipe there, they will start sand-filling everything.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021

The 75 families who lived on Tatuoca island began to question the benefits of the port complex expansion in 2009 when a dredger began scooping up chunks of the seabed to accommodate big ships.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

He didn’t think it was necessary to use the oyster dredger.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings


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