Meaning of bargeful | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of bargeload (“amount that fills one barge”).

Examples

“The locktenders awoke to a bargeful of timber lodged against their headgate.”

“It was four, as a matter of fact, ere a steamer with a melodious bargeful of hounds anchored at that landing.”

“Note that there was too great a difference ever between the dream and the reality. Under the overhanging shop of silks, each day a bargeful of boys and girls passed up the Thames, and what was their picnic?”

“For prevention of foul smell from the mud discharged, one bagful of deodorant agent (20 kg) is spread over one bargeful of mud.”

“The four things he sold last were four large drawings which Marthe, Francois's wife, had inherited from a distant cousin, an enterprising Swiss who had made a fortune during the First World War by buying carloads of garlic and bargefuls of condensed milk and reselling trainloads of onions and holds full of Gruyère cream cheese, orange concentrate, and pharmaceutical products.”

“Bargeful after bargeful was pulled across the river.”

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