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bargee

British  
/ bɑːˈdʒiː, ˈbɑːdʒmən /

noun

  1. a person employed on or in charge of a barge

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

"Well, it's this way," explained the red-haired man, fixing bargee with his straight eye, while the crooked one gazed into space about half a foot above his head.

From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Arthur, Frances Browne

I did not in the least credit this assertion, any more than I accepted as proven the identity of the bargee, though I hold the impersonation in either case to be a strange psychological fact.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

"You don't look nor talk like a bargee."

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

And it seemed to me to mean something, so I asked the old bargee who was steering, and he told me.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah