Dredge (disambiguation)

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Dredge or dredging may refer to:

The arts

• Dredg, an American rock band
• Dredger (comic character), tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic-book series

Excavation

• Dragline excavator, a 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
• Dredging, underwater excavation work

Fishing

• Fishing dredge, a type of dredge used to harvest mollusks
• Marine biology dredge, a device used to sample organisms living on the bottom of a body of water

Other

• Bradley Dredge (born 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup of Golf
• Data dredging, the inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities
• Dredge (agriculture), a mixture of barley and oats planted together used in brewing or as food for humans or livestock; notable for being planted in medieval Europe
• Dredge (cooking), to coat 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
• Dredging (astronomy), a process in stellar evolution in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection