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barges

barges is the plural of barge.

barges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barge.

Meaning of barge

Noun

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.
    • Not far from the station can be seen one of the old barges of the Nar Navigation Company which has become so much a part of the bank it has a tree growing in it.1958 June, Donald L. Gordon, “The Lynn & Dereham Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 396
  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, historical) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

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Proper noun capitalized: Barges

Barges

  1. (plural) plural of Barge

Phrases with barges

Questions about barges

What is barges the plural of?
Barges is the plural of barge.
What part of speech is barges?
Barges is a proper noun.

Words near barges in the dictionary

  1. barger
  2. Bargeron
  3. Bargerons
  4. bargers
  5. Bargery
  6. barges
  7. barges in
  8. barges into
  9. bargesful
  10. bargest
  11. bargests

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