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Meaning of dredges

- Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
- Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
- To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
- A mixture of oats and barley.
- To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.

Crossword clue for dredges

- Clear river bottom
- Clear the bed of (a harbour, say)
- Doctor crept along and cleaned river
- Dragnet
- Excavate (mud)
- Excavating machine
- Machine for deepening a channel
- sprinkle with flour
- Doctor moves slowly and removes the mud
- Removes silt
- Scrapes (river bottom)
- Sprinkles (with flour)
- Sprinkles (with sugar)
- Trawls (riverbed)