bargee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Suddenly one bargee shook his fist: "It's that lazy bum Walker," the bargee said, "now he's back!"
From Time Magazine Archive
They had no youngsters with them then of any description, bargee was positive; just the man and woman by themselves.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Arthur, Frances Browne
Julian only answered the threat by a bow, and the two walked off to the bargee, who, in despair and anger, was knotting together the cut pieces of his rope.
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
"And this bargee has got the old un," said Tillotson, using the terms Glover had employed in his narrative.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
The bargee was a strongly-built, stupid, healthy-looking young man, of some twenty-three years old, who, from being slow of passion was all the more terrible when aroused.
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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