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ferry
[fer-ee]
noun
plural
ferriesa commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
a ferryboat.
a service for flying airplanes over a particular route, especially the delivery of airplanes to an overseas purchaser or base of operations.
the legal right to ferry passengers, cargo, etc., and to charge for the service.
verb (used with object)
to carry or convey back and forth over a fixed route in a boat or plane.
to fly (an airplane) over a particular route, especially for delivery.
verb (used without object)
to go in a ferry.
ferry
/ ˈɛɪ /
noun
Also called: ferryboat.a vessel for transporting passengers and usually vehicles across a body of water, esp as a regular service
such a service
( in combination )
a ferryman
a legal right to charge for transporting passengers by boat
the act or method of delivering aircraft by flying them to their destination
verb
to transport or go by ferry
to deliver (an aircraft) by flying it to its destination
(tr) to convey (passengers, goods, etc)
the guests were ferried to the church in taxis
Other Word Forms
- unferried adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ferry1
Example Sentences
A person has gone overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde.
Services from Troon, about 15 miles further south on the Ayrshire coast, will be provided by the new ferry MV Glen Sannox and the chartered catamaran Alfred.
The crowd – mostly dressed in accordance with conservative religious rules – surged past buses with reinforced windows, fresh from ferrying groups of settlers from the occupied West Bank.
The drug is being smuggled into the UK through two main routes - concealed in small parcels sent by post, or hidden in lorries and vans arriving via ferries and the Channel Tunnel, the NCA believes.
Instead, young California guardsmen, each given 20 rounds of ammunition, marched to the Bay amid a jeering crowd, took a ferry to Oakland and tried to get to Sacramento by train.
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