Obs. Also 7 imbarge, embargue, -barque. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To lay an embargo upon (ships or goods): to sequestrate, confiscate; to arrest (persons). Hence Embarging vbl. sb.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 555 (R.). Our merchants with their goods were embarged or arrested.
1617. Moryson, Itin., II. II. ii. 140. The twelue ships … were … embarged (or arested) to serue the King.
1618–29. Duke’s Acc. of Fleet, in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 187. Spain being the Enemy, our Merchant goods would be imbarged.
1624. [Scott], Vox Cœli, 35. The Duke … embarg’d and confisk’d a world of Goods and Ships.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea for Niniveh, 165. To embarque our own Nation, to build Blockhouses against our selves.
Hence Embarging vbl. sb.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Invention of Shipping, 37. The imbarging … of their Ships in Spaine.
Embarge, var. of IMBARGE, obs., to go on board a barge.
