bargemen

"bargemen" of the borough seem to have already existed before the

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

"Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne.

Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit Michael Sims 2010

The movie was so poor an adaptation of Master and Commander as to be unrecognizable where Jack Aubrey is explaining the difference in flavor of the ‘bargemen’ – maggots that live in the ships biscuits and become more prevalent as the cruise lengthens – how some are oddly cold tasting, but harmess!

Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Astrology, Geography, and much else I forget, often leavened by profanity of bargemen at the dock.

no-yes : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope – yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages.

Sketches by Boz 2007

He composed this book with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh, but going to the bridge-foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He watched with little interest as the bargemen on the Canal du Midi lashed their p-niches to double moorings, or even to the bases of the lime trees that lined the bank.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

(He had been one of the hardest livers and hardest readers of his time at Oxbridge, where the name of Stunning Warrington was yet famous for beating bargemen, pulling matches, winning prizes, and drinking milk-punch.)

The History of Pendennis 2006

Its bed and estuary scoured and sunken, was now a canal of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

From time to time he uttered soft regular sounds; he was wailing a dirge, that is, swaying backwards and forwards with his eyes shut, and shaking his head as drivers or bargemen do when they chant their melancholy songs.

Mumu 2006