n.
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: dredged ; dredg · ing
Etymology: obsolete dredge, noun, sweetmeat, from Middle English drage, drege, from Anglo-French dragee, modification of Latin tragemata sweetmeats, from Greek trag ē mata, plural of trag ē ma sweetmeat, from tr ō gein to gnaw
Date: 1596
: to coat (food) by sprinkling (as with flour)
– dredg · er noun