Ring up or clear something from a river, harbor, or other area of water with a dredge 1Ĭlean out the bed of (a harbor, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge 1

Noun 1 Verb 1, intransitive & transitive 2Īn apparatus in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device for bringing up objects or mud from a river or seabed by scooping or dragging 1 GF Flour Coated Beef by eatallthethings is under the CC BY 2.0 license, via Flickr.Ĭharming Your Chores: Scrub That Floor! by Ariel Grimm is under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license, via Flickr. Subscribe to KD Did It, if you’d like to track this post for future updates.

If you found this post on “Dredge versus Drudge” interesting, consider tweeting it to your friends. I’m hoping you’ll share with us words that have been a bête noire for you from either end. It evolved into a sharing of information with y’all. started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. “What a dredge” should have been an exclamation at the size of the device or perhaps the mountain of chicken that needed coating with flour and spices, however, the context of the paragraph led me to think the author intended to mean a person subjected to dull work, a drudge.

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