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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.
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.
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. Collocations Travel and tourism.
A ferry is a boat that carries passengers or vehicles across a river or a narrow stretch of sea.
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.
