DREDGING BUCKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dredging bucket" is a kind of...):

bucket; pail (a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dredging bucket"):

clamshell; grapple (a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam)

Holonyms ("dredging bucket" is a part of...):

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

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