bargeful

plural bargefuls · plural bargesful

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

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

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

   1909, Rudyard Kipling, Little Foxes: A Tale Of The Gihon Hunt

   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?

   1945, Marguerite Young, Angel in the Forest, page 86

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

   1984, Management of Bottom Sediments Containing Toxic Substances

   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.

   2003, Georges Perec, Life, a User's Manual: Fictions, page 472

   Bargeful after bargeful was pulled across the river.

   2012, Egbert Kieser, Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945

   Synonyms: bargeload