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noun
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.
verb (used without object)
6.
to move clumsily; bump into things; collide: to barge through a crowd.
7.
to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge.
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verb (used with object)
Verb phrases8.
to carry or transport by barge: Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi.
9.
barge in, to intrude, especially rudely: I hated to barge in without an invitation.
10.
barge into,
a.
Also, barge in on. to force oneself upon, especially rudely; interfere in: to barge into a conversation.
b.
to bump into; collide with: He started to run away and barged into a passer-by.
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Word Origin & History
barge
c.1300, "small seagoing vessel with sails," from O.Fr. barge, O.Prov. barca, from M.L. barga, from L. *barica, from Gk. baris "Egyptian boat," from Coptic bari "small boat." Meaning "flat-bottomed freight boat" dates from late 15c. The verb form barge into dates from 1830s, Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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