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Webster 1913 Edition


Embarge

Em-barge′

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Verb.
T.
To put in a barge.
[Poetic]
Drayton.

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embarge

embarge

English

Verb

embarge (third-person singular simple present embarges, present participle embarging, simple past and past participle embarged)

  1. (transitive) To put in a barge.
  2. (intransitive) To board a barge; to embark.
    • 1843, Frederick William Fairholt, Lord Mayors' Pageants, page 152
      [...] where the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and their attendants take barge; also the Grocers Company do likewise embarge, [...].

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Noun

embarge (plural embarges)

  1. (rare) An embargo.
    • 1979, Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Japan's Case Examined, page 174
      This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this.

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References

  • "" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 1996.