(n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
(n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
(n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
(n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
(n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) The farmers may also struggle to find other bulk items, such as fertiliser, that are typically shipped by barge.
(3) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(4) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
(5) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
(6) A retired police officer told the West Yorkshire inquiry that there were rumours in the early 1960s that Savile "took young girls to his barge in Leeds for parties".
(7) Barges are carrying lighter loads, making for more traffic, with more delays and back-ups.
(8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(9) A discarded oil drum bobbing in the Napo highlights the pollution from the oil barges and river traffic.
(10) When, finally, the LPO barge joined the procession of boats, Blunt says he found it "impossible not to get swept up in national fever.
(11) Wayne Rooney was still protesting after the final whistle, the England captain furious Mark Clattenburg had penalised Rafael da Silva for a foul on Vardy, when the Leicester forward had barged into the United full-back seconds earlier.
(12) They shrugged off the harsh decision not to award them a 43rd-minute penalty for a barge by Giorgio Chiellini on Joel Campbell to strike the decisive blow through the captain Bryan Ruiz.
(13) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(14) After Michal Pazdan tried to nick Nani’s pass from him and failed, the chance opened up but Ronaldo shot straight at Fabianski while, on the half-hour, he should have had a penalty when Pazdan barged into him as he attacked a cross.
(15) The Italian company IREM won the contract and supplied its own permanent workforce, accommodating them in large, grey housing barges moored off Grimsby docks.
(16) When elected to Westminster, however, her primary sporting activity was cycling to work along the river Thames from the barge on which she lived with her husband, Brendan Cox, and their two children, Lejla and Cuillin.
(17) The company has tried repeatedly to complete a landing of a 68m-tall rocket on the barge, most recently in March .
(18) By the time it arrived at the O2 Arena in Greenwich at 6pm, it had been buffeted and barged by clashes between pro-Tibetan demonstrators and Chinese students, and its passage interrupted by several direct incursions from protesters.
(19) Juventus and Liverpool have been brutally barged from contests by the Ivorian in recent weeks, with London rivals now dispatched the same way.
(20) In one of those self-destructive moments which have become this team’s hallmark, Fabricio Coloccini barged Steven Fletcher with a shoulder as the striker attempted to connect with Jermain Defoe’s pass.
Craft
Definition:
(n.) Strength; might; secret power.
(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(3) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(4) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(5) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(6) The base and prospect of this manoeuver are discussed with a reference to Craft's procedure.
(7) These involved two craft being carried to Mars and landed with precision on its surface.
(8) They aren't pointless; apart from any craft they may teach, they can also offer connections and contacts – a "way in" – which is the modern essential of anyone trying to start a career.
(9) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.
(10) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(11) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
(12) In the first (1847-1898), it was a craft without an academic and professional base.
(13) The three were meeting later today with the White House, the energy secretary, Stephen Chu, and the interior secretary, Ken Salazar, to craft a bill that would pass in the Senate — and have the support of the Obama administration.
(14) • Amanda Girling-Budd is founder of The School of Stuff in east London: it runs year-long, one-day-a-week craft courses for career changers, five-day intensive courses, 12-week evening classes and one-off days and weekends.
(15) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(16) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
(17) We all have our own unique DNA and our own life experiences.” But rather than run from the family name entirely, the former Florida governor is appealing instead to his party’s sense of noblesse oblige – crafting a new version of his brother’s somewhat faded brand of compassionate conservatism.
(18) A triumvirate of Senators — Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman — are working to craft a climate change bill they think would have a good chance of getting support from Republican as well as Democratic Senators.
(19) Labour are finally crafting a clearer line on Brexit: this morning, the shadow chancellor warned that “losing access to the single market would be devastating for jobs, livelihoods and our public services”, that Britain didn’t vote for “economic misery and the loss of jobs”, and that the government was “abandoning Britain’s clear national interests by putting narrow party political concerns first.” These are good lines – and clarify that Labour’s priority is single-market access – but they will only cut through if repeated in similar language until people can hardly bear to hear them anymore.
(20) Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it.