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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
But Dan was not born to be a bargeman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author of Cover the Waterfront, an expert on the simple life, discovers a bargeman who combines philosophizing with fishing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bargeman said he never shoulda taken it out in the first place.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
A bargeman, poling away from the shore, found Chicken late that afternoon stuck in some rocks and weeds, his knickers ballooning about his legs.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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
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
Dutch bargemen poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crossing the Seine I saw a string of barges being towed empty down the current, riding high, the bargemen at the sweeps as they came toward the bridge.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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