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noun
1.
a large, open, flat-bottomed barge, used in unloading and loading ships offshore or in transporting goods for short distances in shallow waters.
verb (used with object)
2.
to convey in or as if in a lighter.
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Lightering
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lighter
"barge," 1487, from light (adj.), with a sense of lightening a load. They are used in loading or unloading ships that cannot approach a wharf.
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