Etymology

dredgeboat

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Today it means: A boat used in dredging Full definition →

Scots dreg-boat
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The story

  1. Scots · borrowed fromdreg-boat
  2. English todaydredgeboat

Probably a borrowing from Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot, equivalent to dredge + boat.

Words from the same roots

Scotsdreg-boat all →

dredge

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