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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.
The modern ferry network is primarily under the authority of San Francisco Bay Ferry, connecting with cities as far as Vallejo. Tourist excursions are also offered by Blue & Gold Fleet and Red & White Fleet. A ferry serves Angel Island (which also accepts private craft).
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.
A ferry is a boat that carries passengers or vehicles across a river or a narrow stretch of sea. They crossed the river by ferry. American English : ferry / ˈfɛri /
/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.
fer·ry. (fĕr′ē) v. fer·ried, fer·ry·ing, fer·ries. v.tr. 1. Nautical. a. To transport (people, vehicles, or goods) by boat across a body of water such as a river or bay. b. To cross (a body of water) by a ferry. 2. a. To deliver (a vehicle, especially an aircraft) under its own power to its eventual user. b.
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 definition: To transport (people, vehicles, or goods) by boat across a body of water.
