[f. BARGE + MAN.] A man who has charge of a barge; one of the crew or rowers of a barge.
1465. Mann. & Househ. Exp., 297. Gaff to the Kenges bargeman, xx d.
c. 1510. Cocke Lorelles B., 11. Bargemen, whery rowers, and dysers.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 35. And backward yode as bargemen wont to fare.
1681. R. Lestrange (title), Dialogue between Sam the Ferriman of Dachet; Will, Waterman of London, and Tom, a Bargeman of Oxford.
1797. Nelson, in Duncan, Life (1806), 43. William Fearney, one of my bargemen.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., III. xii. So rapidly the bargemen row.
