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BARGEMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bargeman mean?
• BARGEMAN (noun)
The noun BARGEMAN has 1 sense:
1. someone who operates a barge
Familiarity information: BARGEMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who operates a barge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bargee; bargeman; lighterman
Hypernyms ("bargeman" is a kind of...):
gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)
Context examples
His name was Mick Walker, and he wore a ragged apron and a paper cap. He informed me that his father was a bargeman, and walked, in a black velvet head-dress, in the Lord Mayor's Show.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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