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Bargee

noun
1.
Someone who operates a barge.  Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman.






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"Bargee" Quotes from Famous Books



... dried branches, and here and there an old kettle or a tin pail with no bottom to it, that some bargee ...
— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit

... talk of the jeers of cabmen at each other, and how sharp some of them were. Then again they began to talk about other common sayings—the very origin of which had been forgotten; and Frank King spoke of a taunt which was an infallible recipe for driving a bargee mad—'Who choked the boy with duff?'—though nobody, not the bargees themselves, now knew anything whatever about the tragic incident that must ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

... Well, the night Jock MacTavish was there something went wrong—a sofa was out of its place, or a bolster had been forgotten, or a rope wouldn't work, I don't know what it was—and the language that woman indulged in while she was in the act of dying would have disgraced a bargee. Jock was in a stage-box and heard every filthy word of it. Of course he told me the story as a joke, and I was rather disgusted, but I'm glad he did so now. That was an extreme case, I know—such things don't occur one time in ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour



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