dredger
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“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: These dredging activities, this dredger, it created a lot of problems.
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
The Scottish-registered scallop dredger Cornelis Gert Jan arrived back in the UK in the early hours of Thursday morning, after leaving Le Havre the previous evening.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2021
“I wondered, Dad, if you would hook up the oyster dredger to the Miss Amanda and help me haul something out of the river?”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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