[f. prec. sb.]
† 1. phr. To barge it: to journey by barge. Obs.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, in Harl. Misc., VI. 151 (D.). Whole tribes of males and females trotted, bargd it thither.
2. trans. To carry by barge.
1649. Blith, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 88. Were there a River to Barge it [soil] up and down.
1885. Harper’s Mag., May, 873/2. Of coals … 750,000 tons are … annually … barged.
