bargemaster

See also: barge master

English

Alternative forms

• barge master

Etymology

From barge +‎ master.

Noun

bargemaster (plural bargemasters)

1. The person in charge of transport on a barge or barges.

   In Tudor days, the royal bargemaster was a notable courtier, responsible for taking the king’s party to many places along the Thames.

   • 1958 July, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:

     Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.

Related terms

• bargee
• bargeman