What is "bargees"

Usage examples of "bargees".

Respected by the bargees and canalers—people who didn't give respect or liking easily.

Out on the lagoon the bargees were busy pulling out the last of the stakes that marked the safe channels.

It was not the finest blend of spirits ever to grace a bar optic, and would probably have been more at home removing tar from bargees' gumboots.

The two men on my gangway had stopped and were lining up their guns on me, or seemed to be, because it was difficult to see in the starlight, but a moment later I was convinced they had for narrow red flames licked out in the darkness although there was no sound of shots, which was perfectly understandable for no man in his right senses was going to upset hundreds of tough Dutch, German and Belgian bargees if he could possibly help it.