[bahrj] 
noun, verb, barged, barg⋅ing.| 1. | a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter. |
| 2. | a vessel of state used in pageants: elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice. |
| 3. | Navy. a boat reserved for a flag officer. |
| 4. | a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat. |
| 5. | New England (chiefly Older Use ). a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus. |
| 6. | to move clumsily; bump into things; collide: to barge through a crowd. |
| 7. | to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge. |
| 8. | to carry or transport by barge: Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi. |
| 9. | barge in, to intrude, esp. rudely: I hated to barge in without an invitation. |
| 10. | barge into,
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| barge (bärj) n.
v. tr. To carry by barge. v. intr.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin barca, boat.] |
