Dredge vs Bathybius - What's the difference?
dredge | bathybius |
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
# A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
# A dredging machine.
# An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
to make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge
to bring something to the surface with a dredge
(Usually with up) to unearth, such as an unsavoury past
to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar
A mixture of oats and barley.
(zoology, obsolete) A gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between dredge and bathybius
is that dredge is any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: or dredge can be a mixture of oats and barley while bathybius is (zoology|obsolete) a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.As a verb dredge
is to make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge or dredge can be to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar.dredge
English
Etymology 1
(Dredging) From (etyl) dreg-boat'' (from (etyl) *''drecg(e) ) or alternatively from (etyl) dregghe, probably ultimately from the same root as drag.Noun
(en noun)- (Raymond)
Verb
(dredg)Etymology 2
From (etyl) dragie, via (etyl) from (etyl) .Verb
(dredg)Etymology 3
(etyl) dragge, (etyl) .Noun
- (Kersey)