bargee

NOUN
  1. someone who operates a barge
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How To Use bargee In A Sentence

  • By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
  • Have these people never walked on a leafy tow path, admired the multi-coloured boats or acknowledged the cheery salutation from a bargee?
  • Tilda Swinton plays Ella, the terminally bored wife of a dour bargee called Les, in the film ‘Young Adam’.
  • Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. Burlesques
  • The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
  • Bargee families live on the their boats and travel carrying cargo for a living.
  • We now play in The Ship at Lathom, known to the locals as the ‘Blood Tub’ due to violent and habitual fighting between bargees there in the late 19th Century.
  • As a youngster I was befriended by a bargee who for many years travelled to York from the ports of Hull and Goole with a variety of cargoes.
  • By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
  • The bridge appears to have been built to appease a micro minority of day-tripping bargees who found the previous bridge too stiff to open.
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