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barge
[ bahrj ]
noun
- a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
- a vessel of state used in pageants:
elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice.
- Navy. a boat reserved for a flag officer.
- a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat.
- New England (chiefly Older Use). a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus.
verb (used without object)
- to move clumsily; bump into things; collide:
to barge through a crowd.
- to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge.
verb (used with object)
- to carry or transport by barge:
Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi.
verb phrase
- Also barge in on. to force oneself upon, especially rudely; interfere in:
to barge into a conversation.
- to bump into; collide with:
He started to run away and barged into a passer-by.
- to intrude, especially rudely:
I hated to barge in without an invitation.
barge
/ bɑːdʒ /
noun
- a vessel, usually flat-bottomed and with or without its own power, used for transporting freight, esp on canals
- a vessel, often decorated, used in pageants, for state occasions, etc
- navy a boat allocated to a flag officer, used esp for ceremonial occasions and often carried on board his flagship
- humorous.any vessel, esp an old or clumsy one
- informal.a heavy or cumbersome surfboard
verb
- informal.intrfoll byinto to bump (into)
- informal.tr to push (someone or one's way) violently
- informal.intr; foll by into or in to interrupt rudely or clumsily
to barge into a conversation
- tr sailing to bear down on (another boat or boats) at the start of a race
- tr to transport by barge
- informal.intr to move slowly or clumsily
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of barge1
Example Sentences
The initial models have been small, but the concept calls for much larger barges floating in the Chesapeake in the years ahead, which experts say could have a big effect on the aquaculture industry.
That’s why tubers, kayakers, and canoeists stop at this river barge, just north of Trenton, that serves hot dogs and burgers to those drifting by.
The contractor could use barges in the river, rather than more of the island, to store construction materials and equipment, Brookman said.
Using construction cranes and barges, workers removed the old draw section and its rusted machinery, and replaced it with a new non-opening segment.
Choices range from speedy, lightweight e-commuters to ponderous kid-hauling land barges called cargo bikes.
I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.
His shirt was torn, one of his worn sneakers was more like a rubber-soled barge—the SS Nike.
When they moved back to London, the only accommodation they could afford was a freezing, leaky barge on the Thames.
At last, two peasants barge into the scene, with spades and threshers on their backs.
Because without them, and the things they make, the world would be a garbage barge.
From this child's arm matter was taken and transferred to that of J. Barge, a boy of seven years old.
One day, Kari and Kopee and I went to the river bank to help pull a big barge up the river.
The rope almost broke and the barge swayed in the water, almost toppled, and then drifted to its previous position.
After he had pulled the barge about two hundred yards he stopped; the rope slackened and then the current pulled against us.
That done we went to the Globe and there had a good dinner, and by and by took barge again and so home.
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