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# bargewoman

«bargewoman» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman who lives on or steers a barge, a long…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bargewoman, bargewomen)

### meaning for a pupil

A bargewoman is a woman who lives on or steers a barge, a long flat-bottomed boat that carries goods on canals and rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows, Toad, dressed as a washerwoman, gets a lift from a large bargewoman with a horse-drawn barge; when she finds he is a toad she throws him into the water, and he steals her horse. In history lessons about canals, whole families lived and worked on barges.

### examples

- The bargewoman steered the barge along the canal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x1)
- Toad pretended to be a washerwoman to the bargewoman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x2)
- The bargewoman's horse pulled the barge on the towpath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x3)
- Furious, the bargewoman threw Toad into the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x4)
- Canal families, bargemen and bargewomen, lived on their boats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x5)
- The bargewoman laughed at Toad's poor washing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x6)

### note

Plural: bargewomen. Man: bargeman or bargee. A rare compound word.

### Trees and pragmatics

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