Dredge

Formerly applied to a net or drag for taking oysters; now a machine for cleansing canals and rivers. To dredge is to gather or take with a dredge, to remove sand, mud, and filth from the beds of rivers, harbors, and canals, with a dredging machine. 15 Can. L. T. 268.

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." 2 DRrPT-STUPF. 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.'