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barge
[ bahrj ]
noun
- a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
- a vessel of state used in pageants:
elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice.
- Navy. a boat reserved for a flag officer.
- a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat.
- New England (chiefly Older Use). a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus.
verb (used without object)
- to move clumsily; bump into things; collide:
to barge through a crowd.
- to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge.
verb (used with object)
- to carry or transport by barge:
Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi.
verb phrase
- Also barge in on. to force oneself upon, especially rudely; interfere in:
to barge into a conversation.
- to bump into; collide with:
He started to run away and barged into a passer-by.
- to intrude, especially rudely:
I hated to barge in without an invitation.
barge
/ ɑː /
noun
- a vessel, usually flat-bottomed and with or without its own power, used for transporting freight, esp on canals
- a vessel, often decorated, used in pageants, for state occasions, etc
- navy a boat allocated to a flag officer, used esp for ceremonial occasions and often carried on board his flagship
- humorous.any vessel, esp an old or clumsy one
- informal.a heavy or cumbersome surfboard
verb
- informal.intrfoll byinto to bump (into)
- informal.tr to push (someone or one's way) violently
- informal.intr; foll by into or in to interrupt rudely or clumsily
to barge into a conversation
- tr sailing to bear down on (another boat or boats) at the start of a race
- tr to transport by barge
- informal.intr to move slowly or clumsily
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of barge1
Example Sentences
Their unit barges into the action already so intimately familiar with one another that you have to be lasered in just to catch their characters’ names.
Eventually the community designed a special barge to bring the giraffes across a mile of open lake.
He planned to park a massive barge near the seagrass patch far from the reach of extradition and police.
No one could blame Jordan Chiles at this point for worrying that the International Olympic Committee will barge into her place and pry that infamous bronze medal from her fingers.
About 40 minutes later, Eis barged into his family’s home in Camarillo, threatened multiple people with a knife and brandished a replica firearm, demanding access to additional weapons before fleeing, according to prosecutors.
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