Wednesday's Word

Word: Barge (N.)

Definition:  container

One of the many names for the receptacle into which clams are placed as they are dug out of the mudflats: hod, roller, rocker, basket, etc.

(Definition from: "How to Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)