Barged vs Barred - What's the difference?
barged | barred |
(barge)
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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, date=February 1
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Having bars; striped.
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(bar)
As verbs the difference between barged and barred
is that barged is past tense of barge while barred is past tense of bar.As an adjective barred is
having bars; striped.barged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *barge
English
(wikipedia barge)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* lighterDerived terms
* 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.}}
Anagrams
* ----barred
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
Verb
(head)- He barred the door at evening.