Ferry
['ferɪ] or ['fɛri]
Definition
(noun.) transport by boat or aircraft.
(noun.) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule.
(verb.) travel by ferry.
(verb.) transport by ferry.
(verb.) transport from one place to another.
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Definition
(v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
(v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
(v. t.) A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
(v. t.) A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
(v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
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Definition
v.t. to carry or convey over a water in a boat:—pr.p. ferr′ying; pa.p. ferr′ied.—n. a place where one is carried by boat across a water: the right of conveying passengers: the ferry-boat.—ns. Ferr′iage provision for ferrying: the fare paid for such; Ferr′y-boat; Ferr′y-man.
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To wait at a ferry for a boat and see the waters swift and muddy, you will be baffled in your highest wishes and designs by unforeseen circumstances. To cross a ferry while the water is calm and clear, you will be very lucky in carrying out your plans, and fortune will crown you.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To return to the Army of the Potomac: The 2d corps commenced crossing the James River on the morning of the 14th by ferry-boats at Wilcox's Landing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I can easily get away from the office in time to meet the brougham at the ferry, if May will send it there. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This was accomplished for the first time in America at the Remington plant, in making Harper’s Ferry muskets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Passing along this deep shade, and out at that arch of light at the other end, we come upon the ferry and the cottage by the best approach, I think. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Steamers to use as ferries were also essential. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Before this I had been collecting, from St. Louis and Chicago, yawls and barges to be used as ferries when we got below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By the 6th of April McClernand had reached New Carthage with one division and its artillery, the latter ferried through the woods by these boats. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The work of ferrying over Sherman's command from the north side of the Tennessee was at once commenced, using the pontoons for the purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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