‘A lumbering keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans travelling on the Ganges’ (Col. Yule).

Designating a vehicle used to carry or transport water, as water boat, water tanker, water tender, water truck, etc., or an animal used for this…

A flat-bottomed boat used to transport bricks, esp. along rivers and canals.

a barge having a tent-like canvas awning.

A barge used to transport water.

With reference to locomotion by steam-power, and in names of vehicles and vessels propelled by steam, as steam barge, steam bus, steam-ferry, steam…

(a) U.S. a short-masted vessel designed to be towed; (b) a flat-bottomed vessel rigged as a topsail schooner.

A seagoing barge used as a cargo boat in the Malay archipelago.

= bumboat, n.

English regional (Yorkshire) slang. Each of several box-like iron boats coupled together and towed by a tug to carry coal by river and canal. Now…

An unpowered freight barge towed by a primary barge; a butty boat (butty boat n. at compounds 2).

a barge providing assistance for offshore oil-drilling.

a barge, esp. one towed by a ship, that is used to lay submarine pipelines which are carried as extended lengths coiled on a reel (cf. reel ship n.)…