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Dredge vs Bathybius - What's the difference?

dredge | bathybius |

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)
  • 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.
  • (Raymond)

    Verb

    (dredg)
  • 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
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) dragie, via (etyl) from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (dredg)
  • to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar
  • Etymology 3

    (etyl) dragge, (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A mixture of oats and barley.
  • (Kersey)

    bathybius

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia bathybius)
  • (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)