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Proto-Indo-European *mon-

Proto-West Germanic *mann

Middle English man

Middle English -man

English bargeman

From barge + -man.

bargeman (plural bargemen) (nautical)

1. A member of the crew of a barge.
   Synonyms: bargee, (obsolete) pug
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, photo caption:
     Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.
   • 2017, David Lewis, River Ouse Bargeman: A Lifetime on the Yorkshire Ouse, page 38:
     Laurie still has Sam's work log from 1919–1934, a fifty-page volume documenting Sam's day-to-day experiences and serves well to show the kind of working conditions an Ouse bargeman endured in the 1920s.
2. A barge owner, maintainer, or captain of a barge.
3. (slang) A large white grub that frequently infested ship's biscuits; most likely a larva of the cadelle beetle, Tenebroides mauritanicus.

• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bargeman
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110716094532/http://www.history.uk.com/history/joining-nelsons-navy-roy-lesley-adk/
• megabarn

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