Word Finder - barge

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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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A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.

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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.

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One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

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The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.

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A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

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A large omnibus used for excursions.

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To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.

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To push someone.

She locked the door and stepped back, waiting for him to barge into the bathing chamber.

I wouldn't touch nokia with a barge pole!

I don't want to just barge in to a conversation that she is having.

The band appears on a barge on the Thames.

The surveyor was also accompanied by professional barge shipwrights.

From engineer records it was constructed out of solid timber trestles with a canal barge in the center.

The barge docked with a rusty clanging noise that caused an undulation in the tarpaulin covering the deck.

Take the nearby footpath and head upriver along what the locals call the Barge path or simply " The Barge " .

Air draft should be no problem, providing the Dutch Barge has a collapsible wheelhouse, which most have.

The quarried slate was taken to Wadebridge and Padstow by barge and then transported further afield or used locally.

There are also two coal barge docks capable of floating io,000 tons of coal at one time.

It lifted for a moment, and the captain, seeing he was heading for the western pier, went full speed astern, then ahead with the starboard engine, and with a barge in front of him drove into the canal.

In all, 4,000 barge loads of ammunition, 17,818 guns and limbers, and over 14 million tons of other stores were sent across.

The barge was previously used during the commemoration of the Queen's 25th year on the throne.

The sailing barge is to be seen in a number of Windsor postcards of the time.

Barge operators are not overjoyed at the impending transformation.

Full results and a few pix of the Barge Race are also up now.

Its Middle Pier can take barges and small jack-up rigs alongside, and crew boats, small tugs and barge services can be provided.

On the gunwales of the barge are large brass dolphins, whose curled tails form convenient rowlocks.

Back on the waters This traditional skiff or long rowing boat was built at William Cory's barge yard in Charlton.

Every now and then a horse comes staggering along the towing-path, trailing a sleepy barge filled with merchandise.

Two trips were required of one barge towed by a small tugboat to get the Americans and Australians to the Dai Mogi Maru.

Dutch barge suitable for mooring in a marina, or will I be needing a yacht of some sort?

A long reach excavator has been mobilized from the mainland via barge on 23rd July.

This colorful print gives a rather fanciful representation of the rowing barge, which is still displayed in the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth.

The barge, being rear wheel drive, was quite slippy on some of the hairpin turns.

There is fair authority for the well-known legend that, after this meeting at Chester, he was rowed in his barge down the Dee by these potentates, such a crew as never was seen before or after, and afterwards exclaimed that those who followed him might now truly boast that they were kings of all Britain.

Back on the waters This traditional skiff or long rowing boat was built at William Cory 's barge yard in Charlton.

Take the nearby footpath and head upriver along what the locals call the Barge path or simply " The Barge ".

Even experienced yachtsmen will be amazed at the speed and agility of a 100-year-old, 100 ton Thames sailing barge.

You don't have to barge in the middle of a conversation and interrupt her.

Take a cruise upon a barge that can hold four to 20 people.

And I have promised SB a barge holiday one day - like Angelina ballerina.

For every tabloid iv which takes the barge theater.

The evening was rounded off by an exceptional pyrotechnics display from a barge moored in Southampton Water.

Also available for charter is an additional rigid inflatable, so you can take pictures of the barge under sail.

All conceivable accessories with the added attraction of scumbled owners cabin adorned with barge art.

Sometimes where stealth isn't really needed, you can barge into enemy strongholds with guns blazing, but you'll most likely be alone while your team catches up to you.

The restaurant's exciting Polynesian ambiance features light tropical rainstorms and a top-40 band performing from a thatch-covered barge on the pool, a dance floor built from the remains of the S.S.

If some poor soul thinks he can just barge in and take over, he'll find himself on his way out the door, usually head first.

Frank Stranahan built the house in 1906 as part of his barge ferry business.

It would take several hours to unload a barge delivering a cargo of 100 tons of chalk.

For a 60ft barge with good insulation a heater unit of just under 10Kw output should prove more than adequate.

Examples; 50 ft wide beam shell £ 21,000, full fit £ 75,000, 58 ft Dutch style barge shell £ 31,000.

Room 58 is a converted grain barge moored alongside the Museum.

These bridges have 50cm clearance above the loaded barge, provided they are negotiated at the right state of the tide.

Passed a lot of boats this afternoon including a broad beam wooden Dutch barge with lee boards.

When all was stable the LISA A lifted the caisson off the Barge allowing it to return to its berth.

Kennet and Avon canal Samuel Simcock He, Samuel Weston and James Barnes made surveys for narrow and barge canals from Newbury to Bath.

They look very droll when moving, rather like what a canal barge would look like at sea with a few rolling billows about.