Definition of "bargeman" [barge•man]

• The master or a crew member of a barge. (noun)

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• "His father, Simon Farber, a former bargeman in Poland, had immigrated to America in the late nineteenth century and worked in an insurance agency."
• "And yet the bargeman said she was traveling only with a priest."
• "He uprooted a clump of turf and hid the wig beneath it so that no passing bargeman might mistake it for a relic of an aristocratic romp in the grass."