Barge

Boat, often flat-bottomed, richly fitted up for pleasure or pageantry.a house-boat is one variety; also a freight boat and a boat for the use of officers on a man-of-war. Barge-board, or VERGE-BOARD. Board used to cover the edge of the gable-end of a roof. In Gothic timber architecture, a decorative feature consisting of a carved board depending from Barge-board. the projecting roof of a gable. The earliest examples known of its use are of the fourteenth century, and it continued to be employed throughout the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the domestic architecture of France and England. Bargello. Mediæval palace of the chief magistrate at Florence, now a National Museum.