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Etymology
Origin of bargeman
1400–50, earlier in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-French; Middle English; see barge, man
Example Sentences
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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
“Not much,” I admitted, thinking back to what the bargeman had said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The bargeman said he never shoulda taken it out in the first place.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Hitherto seen chiefly by bargemen on the Seine, the replica of Liberty, standing where it has stood since 1889, now is an unexpected feature of a visit to the Exposition's Colonial Section.
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
Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas and New Year's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ran out of the room, rode a horse to the riverside, and ordered his bargemen to take him downriver to the Vulture.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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