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Ferryboat   Listen
noun
Ferryboat  n.  A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., usually across streams, rivers, bays, and other narrow waters.
Synonyms: ferry (2).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ferryboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning on the Canal Bridge. Mahony's big sister was to write an excuse for him and Leo Dillon was to tell his brother to say he was sick. We arranged to go along the Wharf Road until we came to the ships, then to cross in the ferryboat and walk out to see the Pigeon House. Leo Dillon was afraid we might meet Father Butler or someone out of the college; but Mahony asked, very sensibly, what would Father Butler be doing out at the Pigeon House. We were reassured: and I brought the first stage of the plot to an end ...
— Dubliners • James Joyce

... Government ferryboat at the Battery. They started to walk uptown, making for the East Side, Ivan carrying the big trunk that no other man ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



Words linked to "Ferryboat" :   ferry



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