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barge
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A network of subsidized cargo barges and water taxis would be introduced on the city's canals to compensate. ▪ Each barge weighs about 850 tons and carries about eleven hundred tons of steel. ▪ It seemed that he was not, after all, a true barge dweller. ▪ It was even better than going by barge. ▪ No one had seen them lift themselves from the barges or soar upward. ▪ The Columbia River was a traffic jam of barges carrying bauxite to the smelters in Longview, Washington. ▪ There must be lots of barge owners wanting similar gang-planks. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A couple of kids barged past the guards at the door. ▪ A woman carrying a large basket barged past me to the front of the line. ▪ She just barged into me, without even apologizing. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He took a glass of water till the Home Guard barged in and waved a muckle pistol in his face. ▪ He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats. ▪ Made his name barging into their clubs and smashing up their meeting halls. ▪ The others are always barging about the kitchen and the living-room. ▪ They were wild like animals, free-falling 15 feet or barging through the monuments. ▪ What am I, crazy, barging in on strangers trying to have a peaceful meal?
barge
I. barge1 /bɑːdʒ $ bɑːrdʒ/ noun [date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : Late Latin barca; ⇨ barque] [COUNTABLE] a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying goods on a canal or river
II. barge2 verb [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION, TRANSITIVE] to move somewhere in a rough careless way, often hitting against things SYN push: ▪ She ran outside, barging past bushes and shrubs. barge your way through/to etc something ▪ She barged her way through the shopping crowds. barge in(also barge into something) phrasal verb to enter somewhere rudely, or to rudely interrupt someone: ▪ George barged into my office without knocking. barge in on ▪ ‘Sorry to barge in on your evening,’ James said.
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