Bargeman


one of the crew of a barge.
a person who owns, manages, or captains a barge.
historical examples

no doubt he can find some bargeman there who will take the boy in.
the lost heir g. a. henty

yet who does not feel that there is a n-bility about a sailor which a bargeman cannot claim?
broken bread thomas champness

perhaps it was so likened by the lonely bargeman, standing on the brink of the lock.
our mutual friend charles d-ckens

unloading the wheat is the hardest part of the bargeman’s work.
adventures while preaching the gospel of beauty nicholas vachel lindsay

anna maria’s the daughter of a bargeman, and was born and brought up on a barge.
the chauffeur and the chaperon c. n. williamson

“my mother was a frenchwoman, and my father an ess-x bargeman,” he said abruptly.
day and night stories algernon blackwood

the bargeman was asked for his knife, and ludlow himself made the first cut upon the solid and difficult m-ss.
the water-witch or, the skimmer of the seas james fenimore cooper

he heard it at the brocas; a bargeman told him about a quarter of an hour ago.’
coningsby benjamin disraeli

approaching nearer and nearer, the bargeman became bradley headstone, in rough water-side second-hand clothing.
our mutual friend charles d-ckens

after a quarter of an hour’s rowing the bargeman’s house came in view.
the lost heir g. a. henty

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