Definition of: barge

(bärj) noun
1. A flat-bottomed freight boat or lighter for harbors and inland waters, or other large boat, as for pleasure excursions.
2. A large and elegantly furnished boat, for pleasure or for state occasions.
3. Nav. A boat for the use of a flag officer.
4. Obs. In New England, a long, open vehicle, sometimes boat-shaped, for passengers.
5. A house-boat.
—v. barged, barg·ing v.t.
1. To transport by barge.
—v.i.
2. To move clumsily and slowly.
3. Colloq. To collide with: with into.
4. Colloq. To intrude; enter rudely: with in or into. [<OF <LL barga. Akin to BARK³.]