Crossword-Solution: DREDGING 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Dredging p. pr. & vb. n. of Dredge

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Removing mud from a sea bed 1 answer
Scooping up a river bottom 1 answer
Using a dragnet 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DREDGING (5)

Walking-coat from tail to throat is Frayed and greened -- Like a man whose other coat is Being cleaned; Gone for ever round the edging Past repair -- Waistcoat pockets frayed with dredging After 'sprats' no longer there.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008
How he has improved in comeliness in five-and-twenty year and in the noble art of inflating his facts.] After these musings, I said aloud-- 'I should think that dredging out the alligators wouldn't have done much good, because they could come back again right away.' 'If you had had as much experience of alligators as I have, you wouldn't talk like that.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The seamen having, therefore, some spare time, were occasionally employed during fine weather in dredging or grappling for the several mushroom anchors and mooring-chains which had been lost in the vicinity of the Bell Rock during the progress of the work by the breaking loose and drifting of the floating buoys.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Well, just at the last moment there came a sudden flush of current, dredging through the tangles like a wave.
The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995
But to return to the water-world, and to dredging; which of all sea-side pursuits is perhaps the most pleasant, combining as it does fine weather sailing with the discovery of new objects, to which, after all, the waifs and strays of the beach, whether “flotsom jetsom, or lagand,” as the old Admiralty laws define them, are few and poor.
Glaucus Charles Kingsley 2014

Quotes with DREDGING (3)

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improve
John Steinbeck
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
Cory Booker
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
Shane Koyczan
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2005).