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barge
What does barge mean?
barge (noun): a large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use barge in a sentence?
- The barge floats on the river. (Tatoeba sentence #10637260 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce barge?
/bɑɹdʒ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does barge come from?
From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo
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