An alternative or archaic term for a person who works on a barge.
From 'barge' plus '-er' (Old English agent suffix), an alternative formation to 'bargee.' This variant is less common and more historically used than 'bargee.'
This word shows how English creates competing synonyms using different suffixes—both 'bargee' and 'bargeer' mean the same thing, but 'bargee' won out and became standard, illustrating how language competitions happen at the word level.
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