dredging

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dredge

noun

  1. That which is dredged up.
    Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […] 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189
  2. (uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

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