I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A network of subsidized cargo barges and water taxis would be introduced on the city's canals to compensate.
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Each barge weighs about 850 tons and carries about eleven hundred tons of steel.
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It seemed that he was not, after all, a true barge dweller.
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It was even better than going by barge .
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No one had seen them lift themselves from the barges or soar upward.
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The Columbia River was a traffic jam of barges carrying bauxite to the smelters in Longview, Washington.
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There must be lots of barge owners wanting similar gang-planks.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A couple of kids barged past the guards at the door.
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A woman carrying a large basket barged past me to the front of the line.
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She just barged into me, without even apologizing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He took a glass of water till the Home Guard barged in and waved a muckle pistol in his face.
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He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats.
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Made his name barging into their clubs and smashing up their meeting halls.
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The others are always barging about the kitchen and the living-room.
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They were wild like animals, free-falling 15 feet or barging through the monuments.
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What am I, crazy, barging in on strangers trying to have a peaceful meal?