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dredging

dredging

English

Verb

dredging

  1. present participle of dredge

Noun

dredging (plural dredgings)

  1. That which is dredged up.
    • 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
      Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment []
  2. (uncountable) the act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

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