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Definition of Dredgers
1. dredger [n] - See also: dredger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dredgers
Literary usage of Dredgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Docks and Dock Construction by Charles Colson (1894)
"Dredging — Class of Appliances — Grabs — Pump-dredgers — Bucket-dredgers ...
Pump-dredgers render good service when large quantities of sand have to be ..."
2. Tidal Rivers: Their (1) Hydraulics, (2) Improvement, (3) Navigation by William Henry C. E. Wheeler (1893)
"Where plant has to be hired, the use of screw hopper dredgers has a great ...
dredgers.—The types of dredgers in use may be divided into stationary ..."
3. Tidal Rivers: Their (1) Hydraulics, (2) Improvement, (3) Navigation by William Henry Wheeler (1893)
"dredgers.—The types of dredgers in use may be divided into stationary bucket-ladder
... The stationary bucket dredgers are divided into two classes, ..."
4. Rivers and Canals: The Flow, Control, and Improvement of Rivers and the by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1896)
"dredgers:—Bag and Spoon; Bucket-Ladder Dredger, Stationary and Hopper, details,
cost of machines, and cost of Dredging; Dipper Bucket Dredger ; Grab Bucket ..."
5. Report of Proceedings (1908)
"The following ninety-one dredgers of various types and of a theoretical efficiency
... These dredgers belong to the following types : — dredgers with single ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Dock Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1904)
"... DIPPER, AND GRAB dredgers—BUCKETS—SHOOTS—TUMBLERS—POWER —COST—DAMS OF EARTH,
... such as excavators and dredgers, boring apparatus and blasting agents. ..."
7. Notes on Cylinder Bridge Piers and the Well System of Foundations by John Newman (1893)
"WITH regard to sand pumps, subaqueous-dredging on the suction or water-jet system,
and compressed-air dredgers as applied to excavating the earth in the ..."
8. Report by Elmer Lawrence Corthell, United States Dept. of State (1900)
"The author does not consider that suction dredgers should be used to the exclusion
... Suction dredgers transport materials excavated and discharge them by ..."
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