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
While Gayford, with the dexterity of an experienced bargee, shoved the boat along out of the creek, Bowler took upon himself the care of trimming the “ship,” and stowing away all the baggage.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
A Thames bargee was knocked down by a taxi-cab at Kingston-on-Thames last week.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 by Various
All this “Social Science” of the sailor was far better done by the French bargee than in England.
From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by MacGregor, John
It was in the midst of a sore-hearted loneliness that I encountered Gavin, who, to the best of my belief, was the son of a bargee who worked on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
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