[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Also called dredging machine dredging machine.any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.", "a barge on which such a machine is mounted.", "a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of.", "to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to use a dredge."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to unearth or bring to notice:We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search:Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.", "to unearth or bring to notice:We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk.", "to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search:Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour."]}]