Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The master or a crew member of a barge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man employed on a barge; an oarsman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the
crew of abarge . - noun A barge
owner ,maintainer , orcaptain of a barge. - noun nautical, slang A nickname for a large white
maggot , that frequently infestedship's biscuits ; most likely alarva of thecadelle beetle , Tenebroides mauritanicus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who operates a barge
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Examples
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His father, Simon Farber, a former bargeman in Poland, had immigrated to America in the late nineteenth century and worked in an insurance agency.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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His father, Simon Farber, a former bargeman in Poland, had immigrated to America in the late nineteenth century and worked in an insurance agency.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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His father, Simon Farber, a former bargeman in Poland, had immigrated to America in the late nineteenth century and worked in an insurance agency.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And yet the bargeman said she was traveling only with a priest.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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And yet the bargeman said she was traveling only with a priest.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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And yet the bargeman said she was traveling only with a priest.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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He uprooted a clump of turf and hid the wig beneath it so that no passing bargeman might mistake it for a relic of an aristocratic romp in the grass.
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Elizas father, Jonathan Makepeace, was born in London in 1866 to a penniless Thames bargeman and his wife.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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How the son of a poor London bargeman came to meet and fall in love with the high-born Georgiana Mountrachet remains a mystery.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Elizas father, Jonathan Makepeace, was born in London in 1866 to a penniless Thames bargeman and his wife.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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