Crossword-Solution: DREDGER 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

You see in some Musselburgh dredger’s boat the phosphorescent sea-pen (unknown in England), a living feather, of the look and consistency of a cock’s comb; or the still stranger sea-rush (_Virgularia mirabilis_), a spine a foot long, with hundreds of rosy flowerets arranged in half-rings round it from end to end; and you are told that these are the congeners of the great stony Venus’s fan which hangs in seamen’s cottages, brought home from the West Indies.

The Wanted column of the morning paper is a sort of dredger, which churns up strange creatures from the mud of London's underworld.

Only in response to the dredger's operations do they come to the surface in such numbers as to be noticeable, for as a rule they are of a solitary habit and shun company; but when they do come they bring with them something of the horror of the depths.

You will admit, Captain, that it is bad to be run upon a shoal like a mud-dredger?” “Oh, we'll pull you off before you can say knife.

Men will tak’ a dredger across the Atlantic if they’re well fed, an’ fetch her somewhere on the broadside o’ the Americas; but bad food’s bad service the warld over.