FERRY
\fˈɛɹi], \fˈɛɹi], \f_ˈɛ_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of FERRY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
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To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
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A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
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A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
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A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
By Oddity Software
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To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
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To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
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A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
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A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
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A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
By Noah Webster.
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A passage across a river, etc.; a boat to carry passengers across a river; the place where such a boat lands its passengers.
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To convey across a river, etc., in a boat.
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To go across water, as in a boat.
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Ferried.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To carry or convey over a water in a boat; -pr.p. ferrying; pa.p. ferried.
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A place where one may be rowed across a water; the right of conveying passengers; the ferryboat.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To convey or go over water on a boat.
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A system of ferriage; boat for crossing a river or the like; place of crossing by boat.
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Ferryboat.
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Ferryman.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [German, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic] A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a wherry;—a place where persons or things are carried across a river or other water in ferry-boats;—the right or liberty of carrying persons, animals, or goods across a river or other water in boats for hire.
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