Dredge

Originally, a net or drag for taking oysters; now, a machine for cleansing canals and rivers, — a dredger. To dredge is to gather or take with a dredge; to remove sand, mud, etc., with a dredging machine, A dredge is not a " vessel."

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Matters floating at random, without any discoverable owner, and which, if cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but belong to the riparian proprietor.' A right to " sea manure " is a right to appropriate the random drift and refuse of the ocean, but not goods washed afihore from a wrecked vessel.'