Dredge

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

(2): ( n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

(3): ( v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.

(4): ( n.) A mixture of oats and barley.

(5): ( v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.

King James Dictionary [2]

Dredge n.

1. A dragnet for taking oysters, &c. 2. A mixture of oats and barley sown together.

DREDGE, To take, catch or gather with a dredge.

DREDGE, To sprinkle flour on roast meat.

Easton's Bible Dictionary [3]

 Job 24:6Corn

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]

drej  : A mixture of oats and barley ( Job 24:6 the King James Version margin; the King James Version "corn"; the Revised Version (British and American) "provender"). The Hebrew word is בּליל , belı̄l , usually "mixed grain," ZDMG , Xlviii , 236: grain not ground and boiled in water. Compare  Job 6:5;  Isaiah 30:24 .

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