s also the name of a flat-bottomed vessel of burden, for lading and discharging ships, and removing their cargoes from place to place in a harbour.

BARGE-Couples, in Architecture, a beam mortised into another, to strengthen the building.

BARGE-Courfe, with bricklayers, a term used for that that part of the tiling which projects over without the principal rafters, in all sorts of buildings where there is either a gable or a kirkin-head.