bargeful

noun

Etymology

From barge + -ful.

  1. derived from br
  2. derived from ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ
  3. derived from βᾶρις
  4. derived from bāris
  5. derived from barca
  6. derived from barge
  7. inherited from barge
  8. suffixed as bargeful — “barge + ful

Definitions

  1. Synonym of bargeload (“amount that fills one barge”).

    • The locktenders awoke to a bargeful of timber lodged against their headgate.
    • It was four, as a matter of fact, ere a steamer with a melodious bargeful of hounds anchored at that landing.
    • Note that there was too great a difference ever between the dream and the reality. Under the overhanging shop of silks, each day a bargeful of boys and girls passed up the Thames, and what was their picnic?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA