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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small dredge or drag-net for bringing up oysters from the oyster-bed.
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The naturalist's dredge is an improved oyster-dredge, with each of the two long sides of the mouth made into a scraping lip of iron.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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