Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word horse-barge.
Examples
-
He had shaken his head at a horse-barge which had arrived a minute later, moving at the slow pace of its two nags.
Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931
-
“She’s ahead of us … But we’ll go through before her for all that … This jam means that we’ll be locking through all night and maybe tomorrow night too … Just imagine, there are at least sixty boats here and they’re still coming … Generally speaking, motor-barges have precedence over horse-barges … This time, the engineer has decided to lock us through alternately, one horse-barge and then one motor-barge …”
Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.