Barge

Definition: Barge

Barge

Noun

1. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).

Verb

1. Push one's way; "she barged into the meeting room".

2. Transport by barge on a body of water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "barge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Barge \Barge\, noun. [Old French expression barge, French berge, from Late Latin expression barca, for barica (not found), probably from Latin baris an Egyptian rowboat, from the Greek expression, probably from Egyptian: compare to Coptic bari boat. Compare to Bark vessel.]. (references)

Transportation

Business

Economics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Barge

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Crosswords: Barge

French (barge).

Sorry to barge in. We have a slight apocalypse (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Permission to barge in, Sir (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Beauty and the Barge (1937)

Girl on the Barge (1929)

Brenda of the Barge (1920)

The Baby on the Barge (1915)

Beauty and the Barge (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Long Haul: The Story of the New York State Barge Canal (reference)

• Bears Barge in (reference)

• Life on a Barge (reference)

• Low Bridges & High Water on the New York State Barge Canal (reference)

• The Oilfield Seamanship Series: Volume 5 Barge Moving (The Oilfield Seamanship Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Annual Barge Fleet Profile (reference)

• Barge Fleet Profile (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Barge Burns...Slide Flies (reference)

• Memory Barge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rocket Barge on the Pearl River. Credit: NASA.

Barge with out-board motor on Salmon River Level party of Ira Rubottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A salmon barge on the Kuichak River. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Barge at bottom of photo summer home to scientists studying effects of EXXON VALDEZ oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Cleanup of a sandy spit adjacent to Southwest Pass levee following oil spill. This area is used extensively as cattle pasture despite its inaccessibility from land. Cattle are brought in by barge. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Trawlers tied up behind a small barge. Credit: Fisheries.

Anglers fishing from the fishing barge ANNE B. This barge is no longer in service. Credit: Fisheries.

A barge mounted crane loads rock at the construction site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A barge with a crane is filling a geotube, in the background of the image. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

AQUARIUS aboard transport barge on its way to St. Croix in 1986. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The prices to be paid for coal delivered under these options shall be as follows: (a) For overland delivery, including delivery by barge, the German pithead price to German nationals, plus the freight to French, Belgian, Italian or Luxemburg frontiers, provided that the pithead price does not exceed the pithead price of British coal for export. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Currently, the bulk of its oil exports pass through the Russian pipeline system, by railcar through Russia to the Black Sea and the Baltics, and by barge across the Caspian to Baku. As Kazakhstan increases production, however, additional routes will become necessary, also presenting medium and long-term opportunities for foreign oil and gas field equipment manufacturers. (references)

Economic History

Czech Rep

Most meal comes in through either Germany or Holland via barge or rail. (references)

Bangladesh

SSA's project would include the construction of two container terminals, one in Dhaka and one in Chittagong, linked by a barge line. (references)

Bangladesh

Both Shell/Halliburton/Cairn and Unocal began delivering gas during FY1999, while three barge mounted power projects also came on line during the last two years. (references)

Political Economy

Central African Republic

While the civil war in the DRC prevented shipping on the Ubangui River in 2000, barge traffic from Kinshasa, DRC, resumed in September. (references)

Trade

Qatar

Most of the goods imported into Qatar from the U.S. and elsewhere come via the nearby ports of Dubai and Sharjah, both in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Transshipment clauses serve the purpose of advancing those goods from the U.A.E. to Qatar by land (by truck) and/or sea (by barge). (references)

Travel

Qatar

General cargo is usually unloaded at Umm Said and brought by barge or trucks to Doha by the Qatar National Navigation and Transportation Company. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "barge": barge about ♦ barge around ♦ barge carrier ♦ barge in ♦ barge in on smb. ♦ barge into ♦ barge into smb. ♦ barge into the room ♦ barge pole ♦ fair barge ♦ La Barge ♦ multiple barge convoy set ♦ new York State Barge Canal ♦ pushed barge train ♦ pushed tanker barge ♦ state barge. Additional references.

Beginning with "barge": barge-boarding, barge-boards, barge-builder, barge-carrying, barge-dwellers, barge-in, barge-owners, barge-pole, barge-scene, barge-type.

Ending with "barge": battle-barge, sea-barge, tow-barge.

Afrikaans

aak (Rhine, Rhine barge). (various references)

Albanian

barkë (boat, shallop), varkë (boat, river boat), ndesh (attend, bang against, bump, come across, come round, cross, encounter, fall in with, fall over, fight, forgather, greet, happen on, hit, light, meet, run into), maunë (flatboat, lighter, scow), lundër (boat, canoe, cutter, passage boat, vessel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مركب كبير للرحلات, ‏نقل ببرج, ‏زورق بخاري (launch, ship), ‏البرجي (bargee), ‏البرج, ‏أقحم نفسه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

файтон (barouche, cab, carriage, chaise, four wheeler, growler, phaeton, shay), шлеп (keel, scow, tow), баркас, баржа. (various references)

Chinese 

遊艇 (yacht), 驳船, 駁船 (lighter), 舸 . (various references)

Czech

bárka, pramice (ferry, punt, wherry), nákladní èlun, motorový èlun (motor boat), říèní èlun. (various references)

Danish

bugserbaad (tow boat, towboat, tugboat), skib i indenlands farvande, pram, ponton (dummy, flat, float, float body, pontoon, raft), laegter (lighter), flodpram, et skibs hastighed (speed of a boat), et skibs fart (speed of a boat). (various references)

Dutch

aak (maple, Rhine-barge, sycamore), zolderschuit (dummy, flat, flush-decked barge, flush-decked scow, pontoon). (various references)

Esperanto

barĝo, rejnŝipo (Rhine-barge). (various references)

Farsi 

کرجی (Boat), سرزده واردشدن , دوبه , باقایق حمل کردن . (various references)

Finnish

proomu (ferry, lighter), lotja (lighter). (various references)

French

chaland (motorized barge), barge (Pushed barge), péniche (Rhine barge). (various references)

Frisian

Rheinkahn (Rhine barge). (various references)

German

Leichter (canter, easier, lighter, scow), Lastkahn, Kahn (boat, narrow boat, punt, rowing boat, tub). (various references)

Greek 

μαούνα (lighter, scow, wherry), ποταμόπλοιο, φορτηγίδα (motorized barge, ship-borne barge, ship-borne lighter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"חף (hustle, jostle), אס�"�" (pushcart, raft), �"ובר�" (lighter, raft). (various references)

Hungarian

uszály (ferry scow, float, pram, scow, tail, tow, trail, train), bárka (ark, bark, hooker), másodcsónak, úszó csónakház. (various references)

Indonesian

perahu (ark, boat, canoe, galley, pram, sailboat). (various references)

Italian

chiatta (keel, raft, Rhine, Rhine barge, scow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

艀 , 荷足り (lighter), �"磨船 (lighter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にたり (lighter), はしけ, � るませ�" (lighter). (various references)

Korean 

�"지� . (various references)

Manx

barje. (various references)

Norwegian

pram, lekter. (various references)

Pig Latin

argebay.(various references)

Portuguese

barcaça (keel, lighter, scow, wherry), barca (barque, ferry), batelão (lighter). (various references)

Romanian

barcã de agrement, barcã (bark, boat, ferry), pletinã, ceam, şlep (flatboat), şalupã (boat, launch, pinnace). (various references)

Russian 

баржа (ark, Rhine barge, wherry). (various references)

Scottish

fleasgair (a barge or boat hung with festoons). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

barža (lighter, scow), teturati (stagger, totter), prevoziti šlepom, posrtatati, dereglija (flatboat, pram). (various references)

Spanish

gabarra (lighter, tender), barcaza (lighter), barca (bark, barque, boat, ferry, ferryboat, rowing boat). (various references)

Swedish

pråm (flat, flatboat, Hoy, lighter, pram, scow, wherry). (various references)

Turkish

yüzen ev, toslamak (bang into, bump, bump into, butt, horn, ram), saltanat kayığı, salapurya (lighter, scow), mavna (ark, Hoy, lighter, scow), duba (ark, caisson, camel, float, pontoon), dalmak (bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), çarpmak (bang, bang into, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb). (various references)

Ukrainian

рухатися повільно (saunter), туристичний пароплав, шаланда (scow), копнувач, омнібус (omnibus), адміральський катер, лайка (abuse, altercation, chevrette, curse, damn, dog-skin, hassle, kid-skin, oath, ordure, scold, swear word, vituperation), баркас (launch), барка, баржа (ark), перевозити на баржі, плавучий будинок (houseboat). (various references)

Welsh

bad mawr, ysgraff (boat, ferry). (various references)

baris. (various references)

lancha. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "barge": bargeboard, bargeboards, barged, bargee, bargees, bargello, bargellos, bargeman, bargemen, barges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Barge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arge, Baargan, bage, bager, bageu, Bagge, Bagoe, Bagrit, baige, Baigue, bange, barag, barage, barbe, barce, bardge, barg, barga, bargan, bargea, Barget, bargo, Bargue, barje, Barle, barme, barne, barog, baroge, Barogi, barte, barue, Bauge, berce, berge, Berget, bergii, bergo, Bergue, Berve, biage, birge, birger, blarg, borgi, bourge, braga, bragel, bragen, bragle, bragy, burge, Byrge, bzargl, Farge, Ibragim, Karge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ager, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, garb, gear, grab, rage.

-2 letters: age, arb, are, bag, bar, beg, bra, ear, era, erg, gab, gae, gar, rag, reb, reg.

-3 letters: ab, ae, ag, ar, ba, be, er, re.

+1 letter: badger, bagger, banger, barege, barged, bargee, barges, beggar, borage, bregma, gabber, garbed, garble, graben.

+2 letters: abridge, algebra, auberge, badgers, baggers, baggier, bangers, bareges, bargees, barrage, bearhug, bearing, beggars, beggary, begorah, begorra, begroan, borages, bragged, bragger, brewage, brigade, brokage, bugbear, burgage, embargo, gabbers, gabbier, gabbler, gambier, gambler, gambrel, garbage, garbled, garbler, garbles, gearbox, gerbera, grabbed, grabber, grabble, grabens, herbage, megabar, rebegan, umbrage.