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A flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships, traditionally unpowered and moved and steered using "sweeps" (long oars), with their motive power provided by water currents.
A boat at the disposal of an admiral for his or her use as transportation between a larger vessel and the shore or within a harbour.
Bargen is Dorset slang for a small farm or homestead.
Davy Large is British rhyming slang for a barge.
To 'barge', i.e. to deliberately run into someone. To 'dunsh into somebody' was to 'barge into' them. You could 'dunsh in' the dinner queue, which was the same as 'chorin in'. Contributor said he only found out that 'dunsh' wasn't standard English when he reached his 20's!
A towed or self-propelled flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river, canal, and coastal transport of heavy goods.
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Barge and tug is London Cockney rhyming slang for mug.
Barge is Black−American slang for to jump
Barges is slang for massive shoes.
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A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.
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A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.
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A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
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A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.
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The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
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See Bargeboard.
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The manager of a barge.
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The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
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The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
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A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
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To embark; to go or put into a barge.
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A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
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A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
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The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
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To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
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A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
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That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
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A floating barge connected with a pier.
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To put in a barge.
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A bargeman.
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