Barge: Definition and part of speech

Barge

  1. n. A large omnibus used for excursions.
  2. n. A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
  3. n. A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship’s barge; a charcoal barge.
  4. n. A large boat used by flag officers.
  5. n. A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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