These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'dredger.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. hopper suction dredge (low turbidity, high density and with no rotating device) and the movement and pump-ing characteristics of a cutter suction dredger (accurate horizontal and vertical positioning no-rehandling and reclamation through a closed pipeline). Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023 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. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023 Chuan Hong 68 was built in 2014, and is described as a grab dredger, or a ship that uses a large claw to remove items from the ocean floor. 2021 First came the dredgers, the scientists who dragged giant shovels behind sailing ships and picked through the biological rubble. Copyright HarperCollins Publishers Word Frequency dredge up in American English a. to raise with or as if with a dredge they dredged up the corpse from the lake Collins English Dictionary. Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source to dredge up worthless ideas 2. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023 Several dredgers, including a specialized suction dredger that can extract 2,000 cubic meters of material per hour, were digging around the vessel's bow, which is wedged into the canal's eastern bank. William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023 But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields. 2023 All this was happening in the narrow confines of navigable waterways busy with commercial traffic, as container ships, sand dredgers, tug boats and ferries made their way through the race. 2023 Dotted along the shoreline are dredgers completing work to add artificial sand, groynes, jetties and breakwaters to prevent further coastal erosion.
Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug.
Noun China has expanded several islands in the South China Sea, using dredgers and cement machines to not only broaden the size of islets, but build permanent features like seawalls, airfields, and buildings.
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