barge vs freighter

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. 

freighter

noun
  • A vessel used mainly to carry freight; a cargo ship. 

  • One employed in receiving and forwarding freight. 

  • An aircraft used mainly to carry freight; a cargo aircraft or cargo plane. 

  • One for whom freight is transported. 

  • One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship. 

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