barge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A long, large, usually flatbottom boat for transporting freight that is generally unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft.
2. n. A large, open pleasure boat used for parties, pageants, or formal ceremonies.
3. n. A powerboat reserved for the use of an admiral.
4. v. To carry by barge.
5. v. To move about clumsily.
6. v. To intrude or interrupt, especially rudely: barged into the meeting.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A sailing vessel of any sort.
2. n. A flat-bottomed vessel of burden used in loading and unloading ships, and, on rivers and canals, for conveying goods from one place to another.
3. n. A long, double-banked boat, spacious and of elegant construction, for the use of flag-officers of ships of war.
4. n. A practice-boat used by crews in training for a race. It is commonly a long, narrow, lap-streak boat, somewhat wider and stronger than a shell, and thus better fitted for rough water.
5. n. A boat for passengers or freight, two-decked, but without sails or power, and in service towed by a steam-boat or tug: used for pleasure-excursions and for the transportation of hay and other bulky merchandise.
6. n. A pleasure-boat; in former times, a vessel or boat of state, often magnificently adorned, furnished with elegant apartments, canopied and cushioned, decorated with banners and draperies, and propelled by a numerous body of oarsmen: used by sovereigns, officers, magistrates, etc., and in various pageants, as the marriage of the Adriatic at Venice and the Lord Mayor's parade at London.
7. n. In New England, a large wagon, coach, or omnibus for carrying picnic parties or conveying passengers to and from hotels, etc.
8. To carry or transport by means of barges.
9. n. A book-name of the godwit.
10. n. plural In mining, sheets of iron, zinc, or wood used for shedding water in wet shafts or workings. Barrowman, Glossary.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo
2. n. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions
3. n. 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
4. n. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. n. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table
6. n. US A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. n. US, dialect, dated A large omnibus used for excursions.
8. v. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
9. v. transitive To push someone.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
2. n. A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods.
3. n. A large boat used by flag officers.
4. n. U.S. A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
5. n. Local, U.S. A large omnibus used for excursions.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
2. v. transport by barge on a body of water
3. v. push one's way