Barge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...receive and unload lighters on board and thus reduce the time spent in port. Barge towing, done in the past by men or by horses or mules, is now accomplished mostly by steam or motor tugboat or by other, self-propelled barges. In use since the...