different between dredge vs dredged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot (from Old English *dre??); or alternatively from Middle Dutch dregghe (“drag-net”), probably ultimately from the same root as drag.

Noun

dredge (plural dredges)

1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
   1. A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
   2. A dredging machine.
   3. An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
2. Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

Derived terms

• dredgeboat

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Verb

dredge (third-person singular simple present dredges, present participle dredging, simple past and past participle dredged)

1. To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
2. To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
3. (Usually with up) to unearth.

Derived terms

• dredger
• dredging

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Etymology 2

From Middle English dragge, from Old French dragee, dragie, from Latin trag?mata, from Ancient Greek ????????? (trag?mata, “spices”), plural of ??????? (trág?ma, “dried fruit”).

Noun

dredge (countable and uncountable, plural dredges)

1. (cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
2. (uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.

   Synonym: bullimong

   • 1991, Edward Miller, ?Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500

     It is true that on the boulder clay of south Cambridgeshire they grew dredge, a mixture of oats and barley

Verb

dredge (third-person singular simple present dredges, present participle dredging, simple past and past participle dredged)

1. (cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.

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References

English

Verb

dredged

1. simple past tense and past participle of dredge