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English
Etymology
From barge + -man.
Pronunciation
Noun
bargeman (plural bargemen) (nautical)
- A member of the crew of a barge.
- Synonyms: bargee, (obsolete) pug
2017, David Lewis, River Ouse Bargeman: A Lifetime on the Yorkshire Ouse, page 38:Laurie still has Sam's work log from 1919–1934, a fifty-page volume documenting Sam's day-to-day experiences and serves well to show the kind of working conditions an Ouse bargeman endured in the 1920s.
- A barge owner, maintainer, or captain of a barge.
- (slang) A large white grub that frequently infested ship's biscuits; most likely a larva of the cadelle beetle, Tenebroides mauritanicus.
Translations
member of the crew of a barge
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