1ship.barge, sea-going vessel with sails:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
)
plus n'i targe; Vait s'en al vent tut la barge
620
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Dune fist granz nefs faire e granz barges [...] Pur porter granz genz e granz fais
3965
(
MS: s.xiii
)
barcha: (B) barge
(var. (C: s.xiii2) barche)
i 227
(
1409-10
)
pur le lowaunce d’un barge et rowers .v. s.
12 Henry IV
♦
mil.ship.war vessel (usually attending upon a greater ship):
(
c.1340
)
[...] nefs, barges, balingers et d'autres vesseaulx de guerre
4
2barge, river boat:
(
c.1339
)
et qe la nef ne seit dischargé par barges ne autrement
ii 173
3merch.barge-load:
(
1321
)
il deit aver receu de li un barge de feyn a Waltham
Ed II xxvi 287
4herald.(depiction of a) barge, galley:
(
c.1280;
MS: c.1280
)
Le Rey de B., l’escu de azur od treis barges d’argent
68.11
(
c.1350;
MS: s.xvin
)
Le Roy de G. porte d’azure ové une barge, verge, mast et phaane d’or et cables d’argent
321
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