DREDGER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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