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Bargee   Listen
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Bargee  n.  A bargeman. (Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bargee" Quotes from Famous Books



... jeers of cabmen at each other, and how sharp some of them were. Then again they began to talk about other common sayings—the very origin of which had been forgotten; and Frank King spoke of a taunt which was an infallible recipe for driving a bargee mad—'Who choked the boy with duff?'—though nobody, not the bargees themselves, now knew anything whatever about the tragic incident that must have happened ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

... worth recording until to-day. Eating, drinking, and sleeping. Despite my forty-seven years, I begin to feel almost like the James North who fought the bargee and took the gold medal. What a drink water is! The fons Bandusiae splendidior vitreo was better than all the Massic, Master Horace! I doubt if your celebrated liquor, bottled when Manlius was consul, ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke



Words linked to "Bargee" :   seafarer, sea dog, bargeman, barge, seaman, jack, mariner, gob, Jack-tar, old salt



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