Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fishes for oysters with a dredge.
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Examples
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Ike Rogers and his youngsters are succeeding in taming their dredgeman too.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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And here in this assemblage of womanless brutes, we have managed to carve a niche for ourselves, thanks to an avaricious jockey and an ambitious dredgeman who combines Methodism with rum, tobacco and laziness.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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We have been lucky enough to encounter an ambitious dredgeman and the Thames is full of bum boats.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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At first Ike Rogers and his team did not fare happily, but after a few conferences with Richard and his men they quickened their dredging and came to the same kind of arrangement with their dredgeman, a Kentishman from Gravesend.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Ike Rogers and his youngsters are succeeding in taming their dredgeman too.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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And here in this assemblage of womanless brutes, we have managed to carve a niche for ourselves, thanks to an avaricious jockey and an ambitious dredgeman who combines Methodism with rum, tobacco and laziness.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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We have been lucky enough to encounter an ambitious dredgeman and the Thames is full of bum boats.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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At first Ike Rogers and his team did not fare happily, but after a few conferences with Richard and his men they quickened their dredging and came to the same kind of arrangement with their dredgeman, a Kentishman from Gravesend.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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