Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bargeman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the crew of a barge or canal-boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A bargeman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A crewman of a working
barge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who operates a barge
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“Have you broken down, the Providence?” called another bargee, whose boat passed so close that his head could be seen gliding past, level with the hatchway.
Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931
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The bargee was a strongly-built, stupid, healthy-looking young man, of some twenty-three years old, who, from being slow of passion was all the more terrible when aroused.
Julian Home 1867
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Tremendous fighting and quarrelling ensued, red and angry faces, and 'bargee' language.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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Simon Schama's "Landscape and Memory" 1995 includes a superb chapter on water, with delectable excursions on the canals of Venice and the work of John Taylor, the 17th-century Thames bargee and self-styled "Water Poet."
Any Drop to Drink? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2011
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His top major, Reno, who seemed a dapper, quiet, clever sort of chap, concealed any animosity he may have felt, but the dominant spirit in the mess, a big burly bargee with prematurely white hair and a schoolboy's eyes and grin, called Benteen, seemed ready to lock horns with Custer as soon as look at him.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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"Treaty, nothing!" snaps Sherman; he was the same ugly, blackavised bargee who you remember observed that war is hell, and then proved it; I was interested to see that ten years hadn't mellowed him.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Grant was the same burly, surly bargee I remembered, more like a city storekeeper than the first-rate soldier he'd been and the disillusioned President he was.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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You'd barely credit it; here was this sober-looking, middle-aged bargee, with the grey streaks in his trim beard and the solid spread to his middle, burly but by no means tall, as proper a citizen as ever spouted Catullus or graced a corporation-and suddenly it was Attila gone berserk.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Tremendous fighting and quarrelling ensued, red and angry faces, and ‘bargee’ language.
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I begin to feel almost like the James North who fought the bargee and took the gold medal.
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