DREDGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dredger mean? 

• DREDGER (noun)
  The noun DREDGER has 1 sense:

1. a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging

  Familiarity information: DREDGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREDGER (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)