dredging
English
editVerb
editdredging
- present participle and gerund of dredge
Noun
editdredging (plural dredgings)
- That which is dredged up.
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:
- Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
- (uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.