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barge
has definitions from the fields of nautical,transportation
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[ noun ] (nautical,transportation) a boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)The portwatchers were retired longshoremen and small_time seafarers off towboats and barges who acted_as watchmen on the wharves . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)The man had come floundering aboard the flat-bottomed barge at the last instant , brandishing the flag_of_truce . He stalked into the water and fell heavily over the side of the flat-bottomed barge , his weight nearly swamping the craft . |
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[ verb ] push one's way
Synonyms Examples "she barged into the meeting room" Used in print (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)You shoulder your way through the cluster of the curious and you barge up to the cop on the door . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8675
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[ verb ] (transportation) transport by barge on a body of water
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