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bargemaster

noun

Etymology

From barge + master.

  1. derived from maistre
  2. derived from *méǵh₂s✻
  3. derived from magester
  4. derived from magister — “chief, teacher, leader”
  5. inherited from mǣster
  6. inherited from maister
  7. compounded as bargemaster — “barge + master”

Definitions

  1. The person in charge of transport on a barge or barges.

    • In Tudor days, the royal bargemaster was a notable courtier, responsible for taking the king’s party to many places along the Thames.
    • Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.

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