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DREDGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dredger" is a kind of...):
barge; flatboat; hoy; lighter (a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals))
Meronyms (parts of "dredger"):
dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)
Derivation:
dredge (remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water)
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