The master or owner of a barge.
1648. Clarendon St. Papers, II. App. 47. The bargemaster looking down into the barge.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4742/4. William Burley, of Oxford, Bargemaster.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. 164. There is also in law an implied contract with … a common carrier or bargemaster, to be answerable for the goods he carries.
