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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Barge, n. Also: barg, bargh, bairge, berge. [ME. barge (c 1300), OF. barge, med.L. bargia.] A small vessel; a barge. Also fig.(a) 1375 Barb. xvi. 641.
In sum bargis sa feill can ga … That thai ourtummyllit c1420 Wynt. iv. 2269.
Thre scor and ten bargis lang 1458 Reg. Great S. 143/1.
Of ilk crear, busche, barge and ballingar c1475 Wall. ix. 42.
A fair new barge rycht worthi wrocht for wer 1474 Acts II. 106/2.
For the obtenyng of redres of the barge 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 250.
For the macken of the erne grathe of the barge c1500-c1512 Dunb. xvi. 27.
All ourlaidin is his barge 1513 Doug. i. iv. 45.
Ony Troiane galay, bark or barge Ib. iii. viii. 126.
The port … for schip or barge Sovir al tyme c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3101.
In bote, in balingar, and bargis a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxvii. 19.
Scho is ane bruckill barge 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Wrek.
Sic schip or barg … sal [nocht] be adjudged wrek(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1382.
This Ark, quhilk was … Maid in the bodum lyke one bairge a1568 Scott i. 205.
Beleif that Lord may harbary so thy bairge a1578 Pitsc. I. 154/15.
He biggit ane scheip callit the bishopis Bairge a1586 Lindsay MS. 15.
Weschellis pertening to the wer, as bairgis, galais, houlkis, ballingeris 1619 Garden Elphinstone 627.
I come aboard my bairge(c) a 1568 Sempill Sat. P. xlvi. 1.
I haif a littill Fleming berge, Off clenkett work 1670 Lauder Jrnl. 240.
For seing the Duke's berge at Leith

b. Attrib. with schip. 1570 Leslie 44.
They brint the toun and ane greit barge schip wes lyand besyd