Middle English Dictionary Entry
bā̆rǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bā̆rǧe n. Also baarge, berge, barche. |
| Etymology | OF barge |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A sea-going sailing vessel of moderate size; (b) a war vessel, larger than a balinger, attending upon a great ship.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 St.Greg.(Auch)99/493 : Þabot present him a schip..Þe winde on her seyl was sett..Þan gregorij cam out of þe bargge.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2819 : Þe chipmen..buskeden aȝen to here barge.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.410 : A shipman..He knew alle the hauenes..His barge ycleped was the Mawdelayne.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.7277 : So passeth he the See be barge.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.850 : Faste by the see..she many a ship and barge seigh Seillynge hir cours.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)24840 : Ilk wau til oþer weft, And bremli to þo barges beft.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)35.106 : They myhten wel sen..Al the See..bothe Schepis & barges In that plas.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)6850 : Somme boste & speke grete Whan they..han yheete & dronke at large, Her bely stuffyd as a barge.
b
- c1390(1377) Death Edw.III (Vrn)53,65 : To þat Schip þer longed a Barge..Þe swifte Barge was Duk henri.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)851 : Wiþ her atyre, shippes and barge, Þai gonnen many forto charge.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)338 : A strong schip was mad..wondir large, With his boot and his barge.
- (1442) RParl.5.59b : Every grete Shippe most have attendyng opon hym a Barge and a Balynger.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)5928 : Sone gat he hym mariners, Wiþ schipes, barges, & balyngers.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)116a : A werriour mote lede an oost by watere in smale & light vesselles, as galeies, barges, fluynus & balyngeres.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)4813 : Ageynes hem comen here naueye..many galeye, Barges [Cai (Weber): berges], schoutes.
- a1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)171/316b : The dyche was soo rome and large, Theryn myght seyle boþe bote and barge.
2.
A river craft; a barge used on state occasions; a barge, boat, or raft for ferrying; ~ hire.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3550 : Gete vs faste..A knedyng trogh or ellis a kemelyn For ech of vs..In which we mowen swymme as in a barge.
- (c1391) Gower CA Suppl.(Bod 294)prol.45* : In Temse..My liege lord..Out of my bot..bad me come in to his barge.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1902 : The barge Envie stiereth And halt it evere fro the londe, Wher Falssemblant with Ore on honde It roweth.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1144 : Tregetours with inne an halle large Haue maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen vp and doun.
- (1422) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.143/78 : The Shreves..shold not riden vp-on horsbak to Westmynster to take her charge, bot only to ride in barges with her Craftes.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.134/127 : Barges and Ferybotes and othir vessels that be commynge & goynge in the fredom of the Citee.
- (1425) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.172 : Item, for hyrynge of an barge þe day þat William Waldern, Mair of london, dede take his Charge at Westemester.
- (1428) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)174/12 : Robert Ottele þan Scheryffe and Aldyrman dwelling in the barge in buklersbury.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)264 : Thus cruel dethe dothe al estates fyne; Who hath no ship mote rowe yn bote or barge.
- (1439-41) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)260/7 : Item for costis of goyng with the Sherevys to Westmenstre..for Barge hire and for minstrallez.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4206 : He..Callid to his carpentars..Bad make him..a barge all of redis..draȝen ouer with hidis.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5462 : Reedis, Quareof he beds..him bargis to make..with heggis ouire-folden; Þan entirs in of his erles & ouire þe ee passis.
- c1450 Brut-1431(1) (Eg 650)449/1 : Þe Shryves of London went by barche to Westmynstre.
- c1450 Lond.Chron.Cleo.(Cleo C.4)133 : The duke of Norfolk..toke his barge att seynt Marye overeyes..and purposid to passe thorow London Brygge.
- c1460 My fayr lady (Hrl 2255)p.200 : She is no bot, she is a barge.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)53/8 : Go ye into yondir barge, and rowe yourselffe to the swerde.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)275 : To rowe in a barge with a skulle Avayleth not but the flud be at full.
3.
Petres ~, the Church of Rome.
Associated quotations
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.234 : Thus was Petres barge stiered Of hem that thilke tyme were. And thus cam ferst to mannes Ere The feith of Crist.