bargeen.
/bɑːˈdʒiː/, U.S. /ˈbɑrdʒi/ A bargeman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on barge or lighter
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1669 S. Pepys Diary 28 May (1976) IX. 563 Spent the evening on the water, making sport with the Westerne bargees.
1831 W. Hone Year Bk. 672 A great sum is gained by the ‘bargees’ (bargemen, Eton phraseology).
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xvii. 334 A man who sets up for a country gentleman with the tongue of a Thames bargee.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xviii. 155 The bargees, who navigate barges laden with fragant hay or corn up the stream.
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