Meaning of Ferry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. A census-designated place in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
5. A township in Oceana County, Michigan, United States, named after Thomas W. Ferry.
   countable, uncountable
6. The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.
7. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: ferryboat”

“To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.”

“It can pass the ferry backward into light.”

“to row us o'er the ferry”

“She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.”

“In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.”

“granted a ferry to”

“In 1794, the county court of Mason, granted a ferry to Benjamin Sutton, who owned two lots on the front of water street. In 1801, the same privilege was re-granted to him by the court. In 1797, a ferry was granted to Edmund Martin, by the county court. In 1808, a ferry was granted, by the county court, to Jacob Boon. In 1818, a ferry was granted, by the court, to J. K. Ficklin, and in 1823, another ferry was granted, by the court, to Benjamin Baylies. Bonds with security, were executed by the grantees respectively. The ferrys of Ficklin and Baylies have not been in operation for two or three years past. Those of Sutton, Martin and Boon, have been in operation ever since their establishment. Boon and Martin are both dead. Sutton sold his lots and ferry to Armstrong. Powers and Campbell, who attended to the ferrys granted to Boon and Martin, live in the state of Ohio. Armstrong resides in Maysville.”

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