[f. BARGE sb. + -EE. (The suffix is used irregularly.)] A bargeman.
1666. Pepys, Diary (1879), VI. 89. Spent the evening on the water, making sport with the Westerne bargees.
1831. Hone, Year Bk., 672. A great sum is gained by the ‘bargees’ (bargemen, Eton phraseology).
1861. Hughes, T. Brown Oxf., xxxiii. A man who sets up for a country gentleman with the tongue of a Thames bargee.
1873. G. C. Davies, Mount. & Mere, xviii. 155–6. The bargees, who navigate barges laden with fragrant hay or corn up the stream.
