Dredge (disambiguation)

Dredge or dredging may refer to:


 * The arts
 * Dredg, an American rock band
 * Dredger (comic character), tough Dirty Harry-type cop in the Action comic-book series


 * Excavation
 * Dragline excavator, a tool for dredging in mining; piece of heavy equipment used to remove overburden in an open pit or strip mine
 * In the case of gold placer mining, a dredge is used to pick up ore and gravel, send it through sluices to remove gold, and deposit the remaining rock, or tailings, behind the dredge
 * Dredging, underwater excavation work


 * Fishing
 * Fishing dredge, a type of dredge used to harvest mollusks
 * Marine biology dredge, a device used to sample organisms living on the bottom of a body of water


 * Other
 * Bradley Dredge (born 1973), European Tour golfer who helped Wales win the World Cup of Golf
 * Data dredging, the inappropriate use of statistics that concentrates on local irregularities
 * Dredge (agriculture), a mixture of barley and oats planted together used in brewing or as food for humans or livestock; notable for being planted in medieval Europe
 * Dredge (cooking), to coat a food with a dry ingredient (such as flour or icing sugar) by first immersing it in a wet coating, such as milk or egg
 * Dredging (astronomy), a process in stellar evolution in which heavier elements produced via fusion in the interior of stars are brought to the surface through convection