bargemaster
(ˈbɑːdʒˌmɑːstə(r))
The master or owner of a barge.
| 1648 Clarendon St. Papers II. App. 47 The bargemaster looking down into the barge. 1664–5 in C. Welch Hist. Company of Pewterers (1902) II. 132 The salary of Mr. Pike, barge master, was fixed on 16th March at 3l. yearly. 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. 1892 W. C. Hazlitt Livery Companies 475 The duties of the Bargemaster, which, after the discontinuance of water-pageants, have been confined to the supervision of the swans on the Thames. 1898 Daily News 21 Apr. 2/2 The Fishmongers' Company's late Bargemaster.—The office of bargemaster is one of the most ancient in the annals of the City Companies. |