Dredge (disambiguation)

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Dredge or dredging may refer to:

  • Dredging, underwater excavation work
  • Dredge, California, former community in Butte County
  • Dragline excavator, tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip mine
    • In the case of gold placer mining, a dredge is used to pick up ore and gravel, send it through sluices to remove gold, and deposit the remaining rock, or tailings, behind the dredge
  • Data dredging, inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities
  • Dredge (agriculture), mixture of barley and oats planted together used in brewing; notable for being planted in medieval Europe
  • Dredge (cooking), coating a food with a dry ingredient (such as flour or icing sugar) by first immersing it in a wet coating, such as milk or egg
  • Bradley Dredge (b. 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup Of Golf
  • Dredger (comic character), tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic book series
  • Dredging (astronomy), process in stellar evolution in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection
  • Dredg, American progressive alternative rock band
  • Scallop dredge or oyster dredge, a type of fishing dredge used to harvest mollusks
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