Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
BARGE
I. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin barca
Date: 14th century
any of various boats: as, a roomy usually flat-bottomed boat used chiefly for the transport of goods on inland waterways and usually propelled by towing, a large motorboat supplied to the flag officer of a flagship, a roomy pleasure boat,
II. verb (barged; barging)
Date: 1649
transitive verb to carry by barge, intransitive verb to move ponderously or clumsily, to thrust oneself heedlessly or unceremoniously