barge

From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Late Latin barca, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of bark and barque.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːdʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ

barge (plural barges)

1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
6. (US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
7. (US, dialectal, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.

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barge (third-person singular simple present barges, present participle barging, simple past and past participle barged)

1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
2. (transitive) To push someone.
   • 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎:

     The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the ball.

• Aberg, Berga, Gaber, begar, rebag

• IPA^(key): /baʁʒ/

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Variant of barje, Apocopic form of barjot, from jobard.

barge (plural barges)

1. (slang, verlan) nuts, bananas (crazy)

From Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin. Doublet of barque

barge f (plural barges)

1. barge (boat)

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.

barge f (plural barges)

1. godwit

• gerba

• “barge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bargge, baarge, berge, barche

Borrowed from Old French barge, from Late Latin barca, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Egyptian bꜣjr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbardʒ(ə)/, /ˈbaːrdʒ(ə)/

barge (plural barges)

1. A medium ship or boat, especially one protecting a larger ship.
2. A barge, especially one used for official or ceremonial purposes.

• English: barge
• Scots: bairge (possibly)

• “bā̆rǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈparːke/

barge

1. inflection of bargat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

From Vulgar Latin *barga, variant of Late Latin barca, itself possibly from a form *barica, from Latin baris, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), itself probably of Egyptian origin.

barge f (oblique plural barges, nominative singular barge, nominative plural barges)

1. boat

• Middle French: barge
  • French: barge
    • → Russian: баржа (barža)
• → Middle English: barge
  • English: barge