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dredger

[drej-er] / ˈdrɛdʒ ər /
NOUN
miner
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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 left the northern French port of Le Havre on Wednesday evening.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2021

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

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings




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