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
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"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
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