barge vs bowser

barge

noun
  • A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo. 

  • A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions. 

  • The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table. 

  • A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel. 

  • One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars 

  • A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. 

verb
  • To push someone. 

  • To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. 

bowser

noun
  • A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient. 

  • A buffoon or imbecile. 

  • A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield. 

  • A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station. 

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