In this manner the common oyster-beds on both sides of the Channel were ploughed up by the oyster- dredger pretty much as the ploughman on shore turns up a field.
Little did the elated oyster-dredger think that mouth would swallow up the whole of his cargo; but so it came to pass.
The dredger is still commonly used in our kitchen.
Bill, you've done me more good catching that little crimp, Artie Jenkins, than it would to find a brand new reef that no dredger had ever touched before.
The wind came up from the east with a rush, in the early morning, and the bay was tossing and white-capped as the crew of the dredger came on deck.
Tom, we'll be sold again to a dredgerif we don't get out of here.
It was three o'clock when captain and man went aboard thedredger at Sotterly.
Then the captain took up the dredger from beneath the table and held it up with a smile.
Carefully guarding against stepping into fresh places, he stooped down and shook from his dredger a regular and equal quantity of dust on to the handmarks and footprints which they had made.
By-the-bye, did you ever hear of a single ladder bucket dredger for a depth of thirty-five feet to dredge 1,200 tons an hour?
The lifting power of the crane is one ton, and in suitable material such a dredger can get through a great deal of work in a comparatively short time.
We illustrate below a dredger of simple construction, well calculated for doing useful work on shallow streams.
It is raised with a steam dredger of 20 horse power, and emptied into flat boats, seven in number, which are drawn to the works by an endless rope operated by horse power.
The works themselves are situated on a small sand hill in the middle of the moor, and communicate by canal with the dredger and with the drying ground.
There's a dredger tied up at the pier just south of the fish wharf, and Brad always berths in the same place, south side.
At Scotty's suggestion, they parked the car on the edge of town and walked to the dock where the dredger was tied up.
When the dredger judges it to be full he hauls it up, picks out the oysters, throws the rest overboard, and begins again.
The dredger does not succeed very well in soft silt, because, owing to its slow precipitation, it runs over the sides of the hopper barges without settling.
This paper, lately read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, is a description of the construction and working of a dredger on M.
The repairs to steam tug, hopper, barges, and dredger have averaged about 2d.
The great advantage of this dredger is its capability of working in disturbed water, where the frames of a bucket dredger would be injured by the rise and fall of the vessel.
The dredger is represented in its general features on next page, Fig.
In the discussion Mr. Wallick, who had superintended the use of the dredgerat Lowenstoft, gave some of his experience there, and repeated the information and opinions given by Mr. Langley in the paper.
A new lock was constructed near Lowestoft a short time ago, and the dredger pump was used to empty it; when half empty the men placed a net in front of the delivery pipe and caught a cartload of fish, many of which where uninjured.
Thus at Lowestoft bucket dredgers are used inside the harbor, and the Bazin dredger at the entrance, where there are sand and gravel, and where the water is more disturbed.
In building a second dredger this might of course be greatly reduced.
Picture: Swimming to the dredger] The dredger on which we found ourselves was a complete wreck—a curious shelter, crackling and creaking all over, and furiously lashed by the waters.
However, the iron chain that moored the dredger to the bank was happily still fastened to its ring, and we had the resource left of clinging to it and being guided by it.
The Prussians were using the old dredger as a target for their cannons.
We illustrate the newdredger Ajax, recently built for Mr. Geo.
The dredger has now been working for two weeks at Wakefield, and, we are informed, is giving entire satisfaction; having been repeatedly timed to be discharging clay at the rate of 220 cubic yards per hour.
The Ajax is almost a duplicate of the last dredger designed by Mr. Ferris for levee building on Roberts Island, with such modifications and improvements as have suggested themselves in the two years it has been working.
The dredgercuts by swinging on a center spud 16 in.
The dredgerwent lurching forward, and everything moved off after it.
The dredger and the three shielded derricks hadn't gotten into action yet.
We illustrate below a useful type of dredger made by Messrs.
Single bucket dipper dredger Railway Alarm Whistle Furnace for the Manufacture of Sulphide of Carbon.
The discharge pipe was a special feature, and consisted of a series of wooden pipes jointed together with leather hinges and floated on buoys from the dredger to the bank.
In either case the dredger is moored from the head and stern by chains about 250 fathoms in length.
Dredging and transport on the same works by an ordinary bucketdredger and barges cost 8.
Six anchors and chains worked by powerful steam crabs are provided for regulating the position of the dredger in regard to its work.
The cost of working the Millwall Dock dredger is given by Mr Duckham at 1.
The apparatus was very effective and the river was cleansed thoroughly, but the distance travelled by the dredgermust have been great.
One suction dredger and three bucket-ladder dredgers were employed upon the work, and a vessel called "Scheldt I.
A stage constructed of wooden piles commanded a series of barge beds, and the unloading dredger running from end to end of the stage, lifted and delivered the materials on the marsh behind the river wall at the cost of 1 d.
In the dredger "Melbourne," constructed by Messrs William Simons & Co.
Strange masses peopled the river, a sleeping flotilla of small boats and yawls, a floating washhouse, and a dredger moored to the quay.
In this manner the common oyster fields on both sides of the Channel were ploughed up by the oyster dredger pretty much as the ploughman on shore turns up a field.
If they buy, they'll likely send a dredger through by spring and work a big bunch of men.
The syndicate has bonded Banks' claims and, if it is feasible, a dredger will be sent in next spring to begin operations on a big scale.
At the top of the photograph a dredger at work indicates the position of the approach channel] Now let us imagine for a few moments a duel between this battery and a warship within--say--one thousand yards.
Neither type of dredger can remove the cause of the shoal; any removal of sand under such conditions is merely temporary; the sand will recommence building up the shoal as soon as the dredger ceases work.
About twenty minutes before the time for the roasting is up, draw the pan to the oven-door, and sift flour over the meat from a flour dredger or a small sieve.
Scrape toward the centre the browned flour from sides and bottom and dust in a little more from your dredger as you stir.
Hunter and English’s charge for constructing the newdredger (FitzRoy) was £5,647.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dredger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dredge; machinery; miner; navvy
