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
“T’other side, if you please,” said the bargee, as I prepared dismally to take my header on the near side.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
Soon bargee was wrapped in slumber, and the boy buried in a penny dreadful.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Frances Browne Arthur
As if I had been fighting a bargee?
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
But he takes a more practical view of life when he reaches seven, and would prefer to grow up be a bargee, and earn a lot of money.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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