barge vs packet-boat

barge

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

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

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

  • 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 

verb
  • To push someone. 

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

packet-boat

noun
  • Passenger boat. 

  • River or canal boat that carries mail. 

  • Government-commissioned mail ship. 

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