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Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. Milton. The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar. Turbervile.

See Bargeboard.

A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they ca…

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

insult with vulgar language. [Colloq.] Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs. London Spectator.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

ojecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.

A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing. [Eng.]