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noun

Barge n.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

A large boat used by flag officers.

A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. (U.S.)

A large omnibus used for excursions. (Local, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Barge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barge" Quotes from Famous Books

... overcome the difficulty. Messengers had been sent up and down the river to all the people living on the right bank, offering to buy from them at good prices every barge and boat in their possession, promising them freedom from all exactions and hard treatment, and offering good pay to those who would render assistance to the army in the passage. Hannibal's offers were accepted without hesitation. That the army, which ...

— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty

... later, as the young people strolled onwards together, at the call of Bess, to watch the state barge of some native prince as it sailed slowly by, its dusky crew shouting greetings. Lady Moreham, ...

— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... out into the night air, and went down to the very banks of the Thames. There was not a boat within hail. The nearest barge lay a couple of hundred yards from ...

— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell

... learned in the next two hours, the Neptune Company and other salvage concerns he called were very busy and could not spare a barge of the required size. Moreover, Ned could get no more information, when he finally contacted the freighter, than her commander ...

— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton

... glory receding into the unknown and the West of Wonder; into Lyonnesse, into Avallon, into the Sunset Isles. There is a sense of being on the brink of the world; with the 'arm clothed in white samite' reaching in from a world beyond,—that Otherworld to which the wounded Arthur, barge-borne over the nightly waters by the Queens of Faerie, went to heal him of his wounds, and to await the cyclic hour for his retum. He is the symbol of—what shall we say?—civilization, culture, or the ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

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