(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.
Tugboat
Definition:
(n.) See Tug, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drugs were found in a secret hold in the Tanzania-registered tugboat.
(2) Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty of smuggling three tonnes of the class A drug, which were discovered inside the MV Hamal tugboat about 100 miles (160km) off the coast of Aberdeen in 2015.
(3) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near Pangkalan Bun on Borneo, the search headquarters.
(4) He's unhappy with an article headlined Minister Silent on Tugboats.
(5) The Kulluk was towed on Monday by a 360ft anchor handler, the Aiviq, and a tugboat, the Alert.
(6) The incident took place on Monday, 60 nautical miles off the coast of Libya, after an Italian tugboat and the coastguard ship came to the rescue of 250 migrants.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cocaine was found in a secret hold on board the MV Hamal tugboat.
(8) The floating barge office where the tugboat captain reports for duty is tilted like a funhouse.
(9) A unit in Misrata, 280 miles up the coast, commandeered a tugboat, lashed jeeps mounted with rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns to the decks, and set sail.
(10) The tugboat crew guided the drill ship to a place where it would cause the least environmental damage and cut it loose.
(11) Start at the PE harbour and watch tugboats hauling in car carriers and cruise ships.
(12) In one narrow part of the lake, dozens of dredgers extend from the shore in a line, leaving only a narrow passageway for a tugboat hauling a barge piled up with yellow sand.
(13) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near the search headquarters at Pangkalan Bun on Borneo.
(14) Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) has published abysmal data on payouts from Pandora and Spotify for his song "Tugboat" and Lowery even wrote a piece entitled " My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make from a Single T-shirt Sale! "