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Barge   /bɑrdʒ/   Listen
Barge

noun
1.
A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).  Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter.
verb
1.
Push one's way.  Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead.
2.
Transport by barge on a body of water.



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"Barge" Quotes from Famous Books



... wooer, surely," said she one day, as the Lord of Ware bore the Countess off to his barge for a row on the Thames. "You had your chance at Pontefract and . . . yonder she goes! One would never fancy you ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... passing their lives upon the river as the Tzigani lived in the fields and hedges, seemed to Marsa like the very spectres of her race. More than the musicians with embroidered vests did the poor prisoners of the solitary barge recall to her the great proscribed ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... jest as much as ever; but I can't put a white man for'ard with that bilin' of off-scourin's I've got for a crew. I can trust Pedro; but there isn't another man of the crew that I'd trust as far as I could sling a barge-load o' bricks! ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
... the water as a barge, she drew away from her floundering antagonist. As she did so, the privateer, as though loth to let her depart unsaluted, ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... had, besides, what the sailors call "a blow-out on sleep;" not turning out in the morning until breakfast was ready. I employed several days in overhauling my chest, and mending up all my old clothes, until I had got everything in order—patch upon patch, like a sand-barge's mainsail. Then I took hold of Bowditch's Navigator, which I had always with me. I had been through the greater part of it, and now went carefully through it, from beginning to end working out most ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana


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