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- Dictionaryferry/ˈfɛri/
noun
- 1. a boat or ship for conveying passengers and goods, especially over a relatively short distance and as a regular service.
verb
- 1. convey in a ferry or other ship or boat, especially across a short stretch of water. Similar
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a boat or ship for taking passengers and often vehicles across an area of water, esp. as a regular service: There’s no bridge around here, but you can take a ferry across the river.
1. a. : to carry by boat over a body of water. b. : to cross by a ferry. 2. a. : to convey (as by aircraft or motor vehicle) from one place to another : transport. b. : to fly (an airplane) from the factory or other shipping point to a designated delivery point or from one base to another. intransitive verb. : to cross water in a boat. ferry.
Ferry definition: a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.. See examples of FERRY used in a sentence.
noun. /ˈferi/ (plural ferries) a boat or ship that carries people, vehicles and goods across a river or across a narrow part of the sea. a passenger/car ferry. the Staten Island ferry. the ferry terminal at Calais. the Dover-Calais ferry crossing. the cross-channel ferry service. to take/catch the ferry. We boarded the ferry at Ostend.
A ferry is a boat that carries passengers or vehicles across a river or a narrow stretch of sea.
Very short distances may be crossed by a cable or chain ferry, which is usually a pontoon ferry (see above), where the ferry is propelled along and steered by cables connected to each shore. Sometimes the cable ferry is human powered by someone on the boat.
1. Nautical. a. A ferryboat. b. A place where passengers or goods are transported across a body of water, such as a river or bay, by a ferryboat. 2. A franchise or legal right to operate a ferrying service for a fee. 3. A service and route for delivering an aircraft under its own power to its eventual user.
A ferry is a boat that carries people, cars, and cargo back and forth across a body of water. The Staten Island Ferry ferries commuters from Manhattan to Staten Island every ten minutes during rush hour.
FERRY definition: 1. a boat that regularly carries passengers and vehicles across an area of water: 2. to regularly…. Learn more.
FERRY meaning: to carry or move (someone or something) on a vehicle (such as a boat or a car) usually for a short distance between two places.
