barge

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See also: Barge and bärge

English

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Etymology

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Late Latin barca, from Latin baris, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

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Doublet of bark and barque.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

barge (plural barges)

  1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
  2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
  3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
  4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
  5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
  6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
  7. (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of barge (noun)

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

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  1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52:
      In making this extension, the Metropolitan also built a connection from Farringdon Street towards an overground railway that had just barged its way into the City from Kent. This railway was the London, Chatham & Dover.
  2. (transitive) To push someone.
    • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎[1]:
      The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁʒ/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

Adjective

barge (plural barges)

  1. (slang, Verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

Etymology 2

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin. Doublet of barque

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

  1. barge (boat)

Etymology 3

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

Noun

barge f (plural barges)

  1. godwit

Anagrams

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Late Latin barca, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Egyptian bꜣjr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbardʒ(ə)/, /ˈbaːrdʒ(ə)/

Noun

barge (plural barges)

  1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
  2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

Descendants

  • English: barge
  • Scots: bairge (possibly)

References

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈparːke/

Verb

barge

  1. inflection of bargat:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin.

Noun

barge oblique singular, f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

  1. boat

Descendants

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