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Look up: Barge

  1. Barge
    A barge is a type of long narrow flat bottomed boat.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Barge
    Barge is Black-American slang for 'to jump'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. barge
    [n] - a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) 2. [v] - push one`s way 3. [v] - transport by barge on a body of water
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Barge
    A vessel carrying oil usually on rivers - containing between 8,000 to 50,000 bbl or weighing 1,000 to 10,000mt. In the US, barges can be up to 100,000 bbl, and some barges can even exceed this.
    Found on http://www.anson.co.uk/oilfield_glossary

  5. Barge
    NATO codename for Tupolev Tu-85 bomber [SU;RU]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  6. barge
    flat-bottomed craft of full body and heavy construction Category: Commerce - movement of goods
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Barge
    Horizontal beam rafter that supports shorter rafters.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  8. Barge
    Barge noun [ Old French barge , French berge , from Late Latin barca , for barica (not found), probably from Latin baris an Egyptian rowboat, from Greek ... , probably from Egyptian: confer Coptic bari a boat. Confer Bark a vessel.] 1. A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated. 2. A large ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/15

  9. barge
    1. A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated. ... 2. A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge. ... 3. A large boat used by flag officers. ... 4. A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. ... 5. A large omnibus used for excursions. ... ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. barge
    flatboat noun a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. barge
    thrust ahead verb push one`s way; `she barged into the meeting room`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. Barge
    A `barge` is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Most barges are not self-propelled and need to be moved by tugboats towing or towboats pushing them. Barges on canals (towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath) contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution but were outcompeted in the carriage of high value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge

  13. BARGE
    `B.A.R.G.E.`, the Big August Rec.Gambling Excursion, is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the first weekend of August (other than in 2006 when it was moved to later in the month of August due to a conflict with the World Series of Poker as some attendees participate in both events). B.A.R.G.E. traditions include multiple poker tournaments, a blackjack tournament, the Official ADB Darkside Craps Crawl, and the only known Chowaha games ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BARGE

  14. Barge
    • (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated. • (n.) A large boat used by flag officers. • (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. • (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions. • (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a sh...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. barge
    (from the article `boxing`) ...changes in rules and by relocation to more lenient environments. Matches were frequently held in remote backwaters and were not openly publicized ... Steam, and later diesel, tugs improved speed of travel, particularly where lakes or estuarial lengths were encountered. Powered barges, towing one or ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/21

  16. Barge
    A vessel carrying oil usually on rivers - containing between 8,000 to 50,000 bbl or weighing 1,000 to 10,000mt. In the US, barges can be up to 100,000 bbl, and some are even a bit larger.
    Found on http://www.emis.platts.com/thezone/guide

  17. Barge
    - Horizontal beam rafter that supports shorter rafters.
    Found on http://www.homebuildingmanual.com/Glossa

  18. barge
    an informal unit of volume used in the U.S. energy industry. The barges used on American rivers customarily carry about 25 000 barrels of oil (see barrel below). This is equivalent to 1.05 million gallons, roughly 1400 register tons, or about 3975 cubic meters.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictB.

  19. barge
    barge, large boat, generally flat-bottomed, used for transporting goods. Most barges on inland waterways are towed, but some river barges are self-propelled. There are also sailing barges. On the Great Lakes and in the American coastal trade, huge steel barges are used for transporting bulk cargoes ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0


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