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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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