EGAVE

ferry

About 4.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To carry; transport; convey.
    Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
  2. verb To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
    Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
  3. verb To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
  4. verb To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
  5. noun A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
    Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.
  6. noun A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
  7. noun The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.
    In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.
  8. noun The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry.
    granted a ferry to

Similar words

ferryboat port sailing maritime ship bac vessel ibc boat transshipment

Often followed by

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Word family

ferried ferries ferrying

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