bargeful

English

Etymology

barge +‎ -ful

Noun

bargeful (plural bargefuls or bargesful)

1. A quantity that fills a barge.
   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, Little Foxes: A Tale Of The Gihon Hunt:

     It was four, as a matter of fact, ere a steamer with a melodious bargeful of hounds anchored at that landing.

   • 1945, Marguerite Young, Angel in the Forest, page 86:

     Note that there was too great a difference ever between the dream and the reality. Under the overhanging shop of silks, each day a bargeful of boys and girls passed up the Thames, and what was their picnic?

   • 1984, Management of Bottom Sediments Containing Toxic Substances:

     For prevention of foul smell from the mud discharged, one bagful of deodorant agent (20 kg) is spread over one bargeful of mud.

   • 2003, Georges Perec, Life, a User's Manual: Fictions, page 472:

     The four things he sold last were four large drawings which Marthe, Francois's wife, had inherited from a distant cousin, an enterprising Swiss who had made a fortune during the First World War by buying carloads of garlic and bargefuls of condensed milk and reselling trainloads of onions and holds full of Gruyère cream cheese, orange concentrate, and pharmaceutical products.

   • 2012, Egbert Kieser, Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945:

     Bargeful after bargeful was pulled across the river.