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单词 western bargeman
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Western bargeman
C2. Designating a vessel formerly used on the Thames to the west of (i.e. upstream from) London, as Western barge, Western boat, Western wherry. Also designating a navigator or other sailor on such a vessel, as Western bargee, Western bargeman, Western pug. Cf. western man n. (a) at Compounds 3. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing
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1506 Will of John Reed (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 242 My body..in the nyghte season..to be layde in..a bote or A westurne barge.
1591 J. Lyly Endimion iv. ii. sig. Gv In a Westerne barge, when with a good winde and lustie pugges, one may goe ten miles in two daies.
1611 W. Austin in T. Coryate Crudities sig. g5 Slep't in his clothes, like westerne Pugge, Sans Monmouth cap or gowne of Rugge.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 28 May (1976) IX. 563 Spent the evening on the water, making sport with the Westerne bargees.
a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 59 A Western-Boat, stow'd with a mixture of both Sexes.
a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 64 Others crowded into Boxes, like Passengers into a Western Wherry.
1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 146 Western Bargemen to be answerable for their Servants, and whom to employ as such.
1842 Times 19 Dec. 7/2 There were saving clauses in favour of the western barges, as far as London-bridge only.
1925 J. Parkes Trav. in Eng. in 17th Cent. iv. 106 When Charles I and his bride passed from Gravesend to London in the royal barge,..‘infinite numbers’ watched their progress from..wherries, ships, lighters, and western barges on the river.
2000 F. Morgan Unnatural Fire (2002) v. 130 Lightermen were plying their sea-coal laden vessels up and down to the Fleet to unload, western bargemen steering full barges out to the docks at Tilbury and back.
extracted from westernadj.n.2adv.
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