barge
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3.9
- noun
- /bɑrdʒ/
:
barcaza
- The large barge slowly made its way down the canal, carrying heavy cargo for the city.
- a barge carrying
- barge traffic
- floating barge
It's a big, huge barge that has legs on it.
- It's a big, huge barge that has legs on it.
- OK, let's stick them on a on a barge with an amusing name.
- And what that is, is that is the level at which the barge will float on top of the water, assuming that it's going to float.
- Yeah, yeah, If I'm not mistaken, that's going to be the likes of us that go in the prison camps and the barges and they'll take over.
- He basically lives on a rusty salvage barge doing bits and bobs for the, for various Yemeni projects.
- And although at the time it was more common to put the lumber on barges and to tow it up to the Bay, then to put it on the train.
- And then we're out by the Mississippi and here comes a big old barge and it's got in massive letters along its side.
- In a distant past, Caligula, drifting by on one of his vast barges, amused himself by hiring a thug to attack the current king.
Examples
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And then we're out by the Mississippi and here comes a big old barge and it's got in massive letters along its side.
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The relics were placed on a barge and taken out for procession around the lake.
Academic text (2004) -
We had an amazing meal, like on a floating barge under the stars in Mexico with no one around.
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People climb onto a barge, the barge travels across a Bay, all in a single shot.
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The Mississippi River is an important transportation pipeline, and barge transport is dramatically less expensive than rail and truck.
Academic text (2009) -
The receivers were a small barge propelled by a small tugboat.
Fiction book (1995) -
One company chartered a barge that carried 12,000 bushels of shells and loaded it every day.
Academic text (1996) -
We found favorite spots and revisited them, and we sat and watched the barges and the steamboats.
Academic text (1993) -
The construction materials were loaded onto a barge to be transported across the river.
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Every summer, dozens of barges travel along the river, bringing goods to local markets.
Synonyms
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3.3
A large boat or ship used for travel on water
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8.6
A flat boat with sloping ends that carries goods in shallow water
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9.9
A flat-bottomed boat used to carry heavy loads on canals
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8.1
A long boat with a flat bottom and square ends used to carry heavy loads on rivers
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9.1
A flat-bottomed boat used to carry heavy goods on rivers and near ports
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3.2
A long narrow boat that carries people or goods on canals
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2.9
A boat that carries people or goods along a river
A long, thin boat that travels on canals and carries people or goods
Idioms
Refuse to be involved with people or things that seem dangerous and dishonest
Compounds
A system of canals in New York State that links the Great Lakes, the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word barge comes from an old Latin word barca meaning 'small boat'. Over time it became the name for a wide, flat boat used to carry heavy goods on rivers and canals, which is why a barge is a large flat-bottomed boat today.