There was no mistaking that: Hamerton had seen and heard dredgers at work in the principal naval ports at home.
My dredgers redeemed twice that acreage from the marshes in the past year," Dick replied.
The Bay of Famagousta is extremely deep, exceeding 150 fathoms which affords an additional facility for getting rid of the contents of the lighters, as the mud from the dredgers could be discharged at sea without danger of its return.
The dredgersgave in, and hoisted a shirt as a signal for a parley.
It ain't nothing to boast of, but it's a sight better than somedredgers I've seen.
Hitherto, the dredgers had escaped serious harm; but now a rifle bullet, landing in a number of men bunched on the second dredger, wounded two of them and they fell to the deck, uttering cries of pain.
The dredgers resumed their position, lashed together and at anchor, so as not to lose sight of one another in the fog, and directed their fire more by the sound of the enemy's firing than by sight.
There ain't no other law among the dredgers that I knows of, from Plum Point down to the Rappahannock.
They all know me, and most of 'em know what the dredgers are like.
The oyster dredgerscheered and schooners changed their course to hail Boyton.
Dredgers were still at work at the slip which had delayed the Renown on her outward voyage, but an almost magical change had been effected in the interval by the removal of a million cubic yards of rock and earth.
A number of mammoth floating steam dredgers were here at work, a fresh slip having occurred a few days previously.
Where the river-bed is slime and mud, the channel has to be kept clear by dredgers at the expense of the Conservancy, and no delightful rents accrue from the process.
The first instance of dredgers being fitted with long shoots was in the Suez Canal.
These chains in improved dredgers are wound round windlasses worked by the engine, so that the vessel can be moved ahead or astern by simply throwing them into or out of gear.
Two of the largest and most successful instances of sand-pump dredgers are the "Brancker" and the "G.
Dredgers fitted with Long Shoot or Shore Delivering Apparatus.
Lyster gave particulars of the work done by these dredgersin a paper read before the Engineering Congress in 1899.
Institution of Civil Engineers in 1886, Sir John Coode stated that he had first seen sand-pump dredgers at the mouth of the Maas in Holland.
One suction dredger and three bucket-ladder dredgerswere employed upon the work, and a vessel called "Scheldt I.
They are, however, apt to make large holes, and are therefore not fitted for positions where it is necessary to finish off the dredging work to a uniform flat bottom, for which purpose bucket dredgers are better adapted.
Dredgers for excavating from river beds soil containing gold are generally fitted with a screen and elevator.
The three bucket dredgers worked with head to the ebb tide.
In places where barge-loading dredgers are inconvenient, owing to confined space and interference with navigation, and where it is necessary to curtail capital expenditure, hopper dredgers are convenient and economical.
The dredgers fall behind our course, the fishing-boats, and the perches of the sea-eagles.
I saw on my visit to the canal one of the dredgers at work, and the floating pipes lay on the water like a veritable sea-serpent, extending to a long distance where the stuff had to be carried.
Dredgers were everywhere; some of the ordinary shovel type, others working by suction, and discharging far inland by means of weird huge pipes that apparently meandered at will over the face of nature.
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