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n. The person in charge of transport on a barge or barges.
Usage examples of "bargemaster".
At the landing place the market barge was collecting final seals, which the Bargemaster affixed along a roll of linen cloth.
In all of my fights -- with the possible exception of the bargemaster with the knife and the Christian hunter with his flechette gun -- I had held something back, not wanting to hit them as hard as I could, not wanting to hurt them too badly.
After being mustered out of the Home Guard, I worked as a bouncer and blackjack dealer in one of the rougher Nine Tails casinos, served as a bargemaster on the upper reaches of the Kans for two rainy seasons, and then trained as a gardener on some of the Beak estates under the landscape artist Avrol Hume.
Ever-curious, cocking its head to look at things, it often befriends fisherfolk, drovers watering their beasts, and bargemasters, and will flit in to visit, day after day, ere swooping away in pursuit of the insects that dance above the Silverflow.
Ever-curious, cocking its head to look at things, it often befriends fisherfolk, drovers watering their beasts, and bargemasters, and will flit in to visit, day after day, ere swooping away in pursuit of the insects that dance above the Silverflow.