Crossword clues for bargeman
bargeman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bargeman \Barge"man\, n. The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of the crew of a barge. 2 A barge owner, maintainer, or captain of a barge. 3 (context nautical slang English) A nickname for a large white maggot, that frequently infested ship's biscuits; most likely a larva of the cadelle beetle, ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebroides%20mauritanicus''.
WordNet
n. someone who operates a barge [syn: lighterman, bargee]
Usage examples of "bargeman".
I could get some position at Court for the uncouth Mr Pierpoint, who is a mere bargeman, and I learned at once a lesson I never let myself forget: that power and success carry in their train a clamouring queue of greasers and supplicants, the noise and sight of which haunt my private pleasures and my dreams, but from whom multifarious and handsome bribes may very often be had.
George Pierpoint, Bargeman, was drowned this Wednesday last under London Bridge while leaning from his boat to catch a haddock and falls into the boil about the stanchions and is gone down, lost.
He was familiar with the Jolly Bargeman, where he was both feared and respected as a stern but upright officer of the law.
Duke Street, where the sign of the Jolly Bargeman creaked and glimmered on the left-hand side.
He returned to the Jolly Bargeman and from there made his way to the Embankment.
It was the very bite that had been bleeding outside of the Jolly Bargeman, which, Mister Roberts would have taken his Bible oath on it.
He was in a terrible hurry, as Mister Gosling had only gone to the Jolly Bargeman and would be back in half an hour.
Mister Gosling had gone to the Jolly Bargeman to fetch back their supper, and the McDippers were below.
He had to keep away from the river and the Jolly Bargeman and all them old places.
After a moment, sleepy guards and passengers trickled up out of the companionway, pulling themselves together as the bargeman guided his vessel toward the dock.
The bargeman pushed his silver pole into the water and started us on our way with one long, effortless movement.
The bargeman stared straight ahead, but whatever he saw with his single eye, he kept to himself.
The masked bargeman leaned on his pole, and looked thoughtfully about him.
Softly at first, but as the hours went by and the pain deepened and the situation worsened, I screamed out lyrics to old Home Guard marching songs, then bawdy limericks I had learned as a bargeman on the Kans River, then merely screams.
While working as a bargeman, I had gotten into my most serious fights -- once with a man ready and willing to carve me up with a long knife.