Barge vs Cruise - What's the difference?
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A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo
A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions
A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel
One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table
(US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
(US, dialect, dated) A large omnibus used for excursions.
(Webster 1913)
To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
To push someone.
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A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(lb) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
(lb) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
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(wikipedia barge)Noun
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* admiral's barge * bargee * barge in * dumb barge * rowbarge, row bargeVerb
(barg)citation, page= , passage=The home side were professionally going about their business and were denied a spot-kick when Dunne clumsily barged Nani off the the ball.}}
