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# bargewoman

noun (a bargewoman, bargewomen)

«bargewoman» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A bargewoman is a woman who lives on or steers a barge, a long flat-bottomed boat that carries goods on canals and rivers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#m1)

### In the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows, Toad, dressed as a washerwoman, gets a lift from a large bargewoman with a horse-drawn barge; when she finds he is a toad she throws him into the water, and he steals her horse. In history lessons about canals, whole families lived and worked on barges.

### Examples

- The bargewoman steered the barge along the canal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x1)
- Toad pretended to be a washerwoman to the bargewoman. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x2)
- The bargewoman's horse pulled the barge on the towpath. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x3)
- Furious, the bargewoman threw Toad into the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x4)
- Canal families, bargemen and bargewomen, lived on their boats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x5)
- The bargewoman laughed at Toad's poor washing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/#x6)

### Note

Plural: bargewomen. Man: bargeman or bargee. A rare compound word.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bargewoman» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bargewoman/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bargewoman» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bargewoman.html) on Mova free.