dredger

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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 left the northern French port of Le Havre on Wednesday evening.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2021

Andrew Brown, head of public affairs for Macduff Shellfish, which owns the scallop dredger, said the Cornelis Gert Jan had departed Le Havre in northern France.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 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