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Definition of Dredging bucket
1. Noun. A bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dredging Bucket
Literary usage of Dredging bucket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"A dredging bucket composed of two curved leaves hinged about a point at their
top and so arranged as to open or shut at the will of the operator. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... one on each aide; between them was slung an iron dredging bucket, which was
attached to both barges by chains wound round the barrels of a crab ..."
3. Dredges and Dredging by Charles Prelini (1911)
"To operate the dredging bucket by the single-line method seems at first simple
and convenient. But when it is considered that all the strain is thrown upon ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... was to moor two large barges, one on each side ; between them was slung an
iron dredging bucket, which was attached to both bargee by chains wound round ..."
5. The Mining World Index of Current Literature by George E Sisley (1916)
"[Reported as the largest ladder dredging bucket constructed].—Engg. Ree. June 24
1916; p 20c. Gold Dredge at Hammonton, Gold Dredging in Yukon. ..."
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