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Etymology
Origin of bargeman
1400–50, earlier in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-French; Middle English; see barge, man
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A Swedish woman with a secret finds her bargeman father, barfly Marthy and a seaman who falls for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2019
The author of Cover the Waterfront, an expert on the simple life, discovers a bargeman who combines philosophizing with fishing.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Dan was not born to be a bargeman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bargeman said he never shoulda taken it out in the first place.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
“Not much,” I admitted, thinking back to what the bargeman had said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
In October 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft jumped off Putney Bridge into the Thames; the bargemen who pulled her out saved her for a more humiliating fate.
From Time Magazine Archive
European waterways also foam with detergent suds, and German bargemen on the Neckar have complained that 3-ft. fleeces of the stuff are a menace to navigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three or four days out, according to river bargemen, the cook complained to the captain that the Commodore ate too much.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ran out of the room, rode a horse to the riverside, and ordered his bargemen to take him downriver to the Vulture.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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