0 a person who works or lives on a barge (= a long boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy objects, or a long narrow boat used on canals):
The story follows Thames bargeman William Thornhill, sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales.
One of the bargemen saw an empty boat floating down the Seine and towed it to the bank.
He liked to think he looked like a rough bargeman, and thought of his studio as a barge interior.
