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ALL meanings of barge

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  • countable noun barge A barge is a long, narrow boat with a flat bottom. Barges are used for carrying heavy loads, especially on canals. 3
  • verb barge If you barge into a place or barge through it, you rush or push into it in a rough and rude way. 3
  • verb barge If you barge into someone or barge past them, you bump against them roughly and rudely. 3
  • noun barge a vessel, usually flat-bottomed and with or without its own power, used for transporting freight, esp on canals 3
  • noun barge a vessel, often decorated, used in pageants, for state occasions, etc 3
  • noun barge a boat allocated to a flag officer, used esp for ceremonial occasions and often carried on board his flagship 3
  • noun barge any vessel, esp an old or clumsy one 3
  • noun barge a heavy or cumbersome surfboard 3
  • verb barge to bump (into) 3
  • verb barge to push (someone or one's way) violently 3
  • verb barge to interrupt rudely or clumsily 3
  • verb barge to bear down on (another boat or boats) at the start of a race 3
  • verb barge to transport by barge 3
  • verb barge to move slowly or clumsily 3
  • noun barge a large boat, usually flat-bottomed, for carrying heavy freight on rivers, canals, etc. 3
  • noun barge a large pleasure boat, esp. one used for state ceremonies, pageants, etc. 3
  • noun barge a boat reserved for the use of a flag officer 3
  • noun barge any clumsy boat 3
  • verb transitive barge to carry by barge 3
  • intransitive verb barge to move slowly and clumsily 3
  • intransitive verb barge to come or go (in or into) in a rude, abrupt, or clumsy way 3
  • intransitive verb barge to collide heavily or clumsily; run (into) 3
  • noun barge a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter. 1
  • noun barge a vessel of state used in pageants: elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice. 1
  • noun barge Navy. a boat reserved for a flag officer. 1
  • noun barge a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat. 1
  • noun barge New England (chiefly Older Use) . a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus. 1
  • verb without object barge to move clumsily; bump into things; collide: to barge through a crowd. 1
  • verb without object barge to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge. 1
  • verb with object barge to carry or transport by barge: Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi. 1
  • noun barge long flat boat 1
  • noun barge ornamental boat 1
  • noun barge officers' boat 1
  • noun barge A flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight, typically on canals and rivers, either under its own power or towed by another. 1
  • noun barge A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. 0
  • noun barge A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. 0
  • noun barge 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. 0
  • noun barge One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars. 0
  • noun barge The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table. 0
  • noun barge (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. 0
  • noun barge (US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions. 0
  • verb barge To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. 0
  • verb barge (Transitive Verb) To push someone. 0
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