barge

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See you not the Gonzaga barge is approaching in which she promised to forsake the world with me. "

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  1. noun A long, large, usually flatbottom boat for transporting freight that is generally unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft.
  2. noun A large, open pleasure boat used for parties, pageants, or formal ceremonies.
  3. noun A powerboat reserved for the use of an admiral.
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  • But perhaps the ambushers will wait to spring the trap until the barge is above the eddy. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • Without hesitation the beasts began to descend until the three of them as well as the barge were engulfed by soft wings Into the boat! —  And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ru
  • When the frigate burst into a flame, he telegraphed to the fleet the animating signal, “Infallible!” and as the barge was returning, he ordered those around him to welcome her alongside with three cheers. —  The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
  • The two turbines will be suspended from a barge, which is cable held in the tail water of an existing dam. —  TreeHugger
  • Everyone from the barge was accounted for but the boat was blazing when the fire fighters from Newbury, Hungerford, Lambourn and Caversham Road fire stations arrived. —  getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin barca, boat.

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  1. from Middle English barge, from Old French barge (Middle Latin reflex bargia) = Provencal barga, from Middle Latin barga, apparently a variant of Late Latin barca, a bark: see bark.
  2. from barge, n.
  3. French
 

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