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Ferry

noun

(pl. ferries)

A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule. Synonym: ferryboat.

Transport by boat or aircraft. Synonym: ferrying.

verb

(past & past part. ferried; pres. part. ferrying)

Transport from one place to another.

Transport by ferry.

Travel by ferry.

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... minor movement was partially carried out. The largest of the three columns, under Kauffmann's own command, moved from Tashkent, through Samarkand, to Jam, the most southern point of the Russian possessions at that time, and within ten marches of Kilif, the main ferry over the Oxus. There it remained for some weeks, when it returned to Tashkent, the Afghan expedition being abandoned in consequence of the Treaty of Berlin having ...

— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts

... Rose persisted. "It's not good for anybody to work all day and go to school at night. What's the matter with us getting Cass and Fan Loomis and going down to Fontaine Ferry to-night?" ...

— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... there was a Roman ford or ferry at the east end of Little Wittenham Wood, where it touches the river. The conjecture is ill supported. No track leads to this spot from the south, and close by is an undoubted ford where now stands ...

— The Historic Thames • Hilaire Belloc

... Bay St. George to Paspebiac or Shippegan; and still better is the route via Port aux Basques and Louisbourg, which will soon be connected with the American lines, with a single break of three miles at the Gut of Canso Ferry. With all its faults, British rule has one advantage over that of all other colonial powers: it gives the foreigner, no matter what his faith or nation, exactly the same commercial rights as the British subject; and so, although Newfoundland will lose by the exclusion ...

— Newfoundland and the Jingoes - An Appeal to England's Honor • John Fretwell

... Jenks, shaking his fist in the smoker's face, "I order you to take out that boat, and ferry us across ...

— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins

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