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Barge

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

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Boat 76% connected

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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Hasten 76% connected

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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Hie 76% connected

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

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Hotfoot 76% connected

In haste; foothot.

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Race 76% connected

To raze.

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Rush 76% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Ship 76% connected

Pay; reward.

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Narrower term 4

Dredger 76% connected

One who fishes with a dredge.

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Pontoon 76% connected

A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building brid…

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Scow 76% connected

A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.

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Wherry 76% connected

A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.

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Bargee 74% connected

A bargeman.

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Bargee 74% connected

A bargeman.

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Synonym 3

Flatboat 92% connected

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hoy 92% connected

A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.

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Lighter 92% connected

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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