(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.
Freighter
Definition:
(n.) One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
(n.) One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
(n.) One for whom freight is transported.
(n.) A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1968, it organised the disappearance of an entire freighter full of uranium ore in the middle of the Mediterranean.
(2) Europe flew five ATV freighters to the station, all successfully, but has no plans to fly any more.
(3) Russian and European ore carriers, tankers and freighters are already taking advantage and preparing to follow the northern sea passage across the north of Russia to China – so saving thousands of miles and tonnes of fuel.
(4) The freighter was launched on 28 April from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but never made it to the station, a $100bn research laboratory that flies about 418km above the Earth.
(5) The ‘Pacific Solution’ Offshore processing restarted in earnest in 2001 after the Tampa affair, when a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from their sinking vessel, 140km from Christmas Island .
(6) The present study compared plasma ACTH, cortisol, lactate and non-esterified fatty acid concentrations in 12 greyhounds transported either in the existing wooden kennels or in wider perspex kennels, which were stowed either in the belly hold or in the main cargo hold of jet freighter aircraft.
(7) He has referred specifically to Howard's response to the anti-immigrant campaigner Pauline Hanson in 2001, when he used the presence of a Norwegian freighter carrying 438 rescued refugees full of refugees to co-opt Hanson's supporters.
(8) The British freighter was shipwrecked in 1815, and the individual decks still lie poignantly scattered across the sand.
(9) Early in their 22-year marriage, she and her husband circumnavigated the globe on a freighter, producing a documentary film of the voyage.
(10) The spent fuel was sent to France for reprocessing, they claimed, even providing film footage of it being supposedly being loaded onto French freighters.
(11) He arrived in Belfast in 1940 on a freighter, the Highland Chieftain, carrying a cargo of meat from Buenos Aires and other provisions for a nation at war.
(12) General cargo ships and Atlantic liners no longer exist; bulk carriers and tankers are the monopoly of China, Japan and Korea; cruise ships have become the specialism of Finland, Italy and Germany; black-funneled freighters no longer sail into Glasgow and Tilbury with imperial tea.
(13) The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) announced that the final 8% of Syria's acknowledged arsenal of chemical weapons and precursors had been loaded on to a Danish freighter.
(14) What hits you straight away is his vision, his perseverance and his determination.” No volunteers had done anything similar since 1979, when a group of Germans chartered a freighter named Cap Anamur to rescue migrants fleeing Vietnam.
(15) The Tampa operation was designed by the Howard government with exquisite care to prevent reporters and lawyers learning what was happening on the Norwegian freighter in that great maritime standoff more than a decade ago.
(16) It is, presumably, easier for a gentleman of advanced years to pilot a technologically advanced space freighter through an asteroid field than it might be for him to outpace giant rolling boulders and leap desperately out of the way of booby-trapped spears.
(17) The yellowcake was concealed in drums labelled "plumbat", a lead derivative, and loaded onto a freighter leased by a phony Liberian company.
(18) As the 400-capacity landing ship HMAS Manoora hove into view by Christmas Island yesterday, the government announced that it was ready to attempt a tricky ship-to-ship transfer of the refugees from the Norwegian freighter Tampa, which saved them from drowning eight days ago.
(19) It will travel in two containers, by freighter and lorry.
(20) The film has a £120m budget and it has been reported that the interior of Han Solo's space freighter, the Millennium Falcon, has been rebuilt at London's Pinewood studios ready for filming in May, while Anthony Daniels has hinted he will again provide the voice of robot C-3P0 .