"dredging" in the verb sense
1. dredge
cover before cooking
"dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"
2. dredge, drag
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
3. dredge
remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
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