[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/barge.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / barge

[← B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/B/)

# barge

«barge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long boat with a flat bottom used to carry heavy loads…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a barge, barges); verb (barge, barges, barged, barging — barge in, barge into, barge past)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A barge is a long boat with a flat bottom used to carry heavy loads on rivers and canals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#m1)

2) (informal verb) To barge means to push roughly or rudely past people or into a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#m2)

3) To barge in means to interrupt or enter rudely without being asked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons barges carry coal, sand or goods along canals and rivers; maths problems may ask how many tonnes a barge carries. In stories and manners lessons barging in is rude. Phrases: «barge in», «barge into», «barge past», «a canal barge».

### examples

- A barge carried sand along the canal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x1)
- The barge can carry 300 tonnes; how many trips for 1,200 tonnes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x2)
- Some families live on narrow barges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x3)
- Don't barge in while I'm on the phone! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x4)
- He barged past me in the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x5)
- The dog barged into the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x6)
- Here a splendid barge was waiting for them, and from it they watched all sorts of races and feats of swimming and diving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/#x7)

### note

Countable noun: a barge, barges. The verb is informal and shows rude, clumsy movement. In the UK a narrow canal boat is a «narrowboat», though people often call it a barge.

### In the corpora

- [A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/7/)
- [Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/3/)
- [Toad shouts: «You common, low, fat barge-woman! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/14/)
- [And in my nice clean barge, too!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/18/)
- [Barging in and bossing people about makes others want you out; fitting in first works better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.