barge

Meaning

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. A large bus used for excursions.

lighter

thrust ahead

canal boat

edge in

flat-bottomed boat

freight boat

barc

bull through

narrow boat

obtrude upon

Rhine barge

secret language

shower down

large boat

crack

passage boat

cannonball along

edge up

shoulder in

cargo barge

river barge

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑːd͡ʒ/

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.

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