Dredge (disambiguation)

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Dredge or dredging may refer to:

The arts

• Dredg, an American rock band
• Dredger (comic character), tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic-book series

Excavation

• dragline excavator, a tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip mine
  • In the case of gold placer mining, a dredge is used to pick up ore and gravel, send it through sluices to remove gold, and deposit the remaining rock, or tailings, behind the dredge
• dredging, underwater excavation work
• marine biology dredge

Other

• Bradley Dredge (born 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup of Golf
• data dredging, the inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities
• dredge (agriculture), a mixture of barley and oats planted together used in brewing; notable for being planted in medieval Europe
• dredge (cooking), to coat a food with a dry ingredient (such as flour or icing sugar) by first immersing it in a wet coating, such as milk or egg
• Dredge, California, a former settlement in Butte County
• dredging (astronomy), a process in stellar evolution in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection
• fishing dredge, a type of fishing dredge used to harvest mollusks