BARGEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bargee mean? 

• BARGEE (noun)
  The noun BARGEE has 1 sense:

1. someone who operates a barge

  Familiarity information: BARGEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARGEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who operates a barge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bargee; bargeman; lighterman

Hypernyms ("bargee" is a kind of...):

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)

Derivation:

barge (transport by barge on a body of water)

 Context examples 

Knowing their own prowess, they never refused the chance of a wayside adventure, and it was seldom indeed that the bargee or the navigator had much to boast of after a young blood had taken off his coat to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)