Ferryboat

Word FERRYBOAT
Character 9
Hyphenation fer ry boat
Pronunciations /ˈfɛɹiˌbəʊt/

Definitions and meanings of "Ferryboat"

What do we mean by ferryboat?

A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods. noun

A vessel or boat moved by steam, sails, oars or sweeps, a towline, or the force of a current, used to convey passengers, vehicles, cattle, etc., across a river, harbor, or other contracted waterway between opposite shores. noun

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., usually across streams, rivers, bays, and other narrow waters. noun

A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule noun

A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule noun

A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule

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The word "ferryboat" in example sentences

The ferryboat is a round-bottomed, wobbly sampan, with a tiny cabin in the stern. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Hellespont in a kind of ferryboat, he met Pompey's fleet sailing with ❋ Cassius Dio (N/A)

But these places are not dirtier than a railway smoking-car; and there is no more coarseness than in any ferryboat which is, for whatever reason, used by men only. ❋ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1867)

To get there, you take the first ferryboat from St. Andrews to Grand Manan, and have to complete the 100k ride in time to catch the last ferry back. ❋ Margie Goldsmith (2011)

He dressed in civilian clothes, pretended to be a unemployed school teacher, and he got behind British lines by booking passage on a civilian commercial ferryboat carrying passengers across Long Island Sound from rebel held Connecticut to British held Long Island. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Of course I'm scared," one ferryboat worker told the New York Times, "because Norway is such a neutral country." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The local fishermen's ferryboat €5 return to the island took us past vast saltpans dotted with picturesque red-roofed windmills, used to pump seawater. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They passed a ferryboat, and the passengers on the upper deck crowded to one side to watch them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his day job, Smith was part of the crew that helped tow US Airways flight 1549 along the Hudson River to Battery Park City in January 2009, after pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed the plane in the water and ferryboat operators hauled off all 155 people on board. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)

At that moment he was sprinting across the upper deck of the Samuel I. Newhouse, preparing to pull the ferryboat away from the slip at the southern tip of Manhattan, when a blanket of gypsum dust, smoke, and ash blotted out the sun. ❋ Jessica DuLong (2011)

What has gone largely unrecognized over the past decade, however, is the crucial contribution of ferryboat captains, tug crews, dinner-boat and sailing-yacht operators and other mariners who launched a massive, unplanned mission to deliver people off Manhattan Island, and later shuttle rescue workers and critical supplies. ❋ Jessica DuLong (2011)

After the satisfaction of his nights, a morning's sleep, and a breakfast of Lee Sing's, James Ward crossed the bay to San Francisco on a midday ferryboat and went to the club and on to his office, as normal and conventional a man of business as could be found in the city. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beforehand, whether on that Indonesian ferryboat or on buses in Senegal or mutatas in East Africa or jammed into the slow expresses in Bihar, he was the center of a small whirlwind of curiosity. ❋ Simon Winchester (2010)

By comparison, the ferryboat Berkeley docked nearby seems tame, but she too has had a dramatic history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Someone who knew that Papa and Mama had survived and gone to America saw and talked to the boy, who was working on a ferryboat between Italy and Malta. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A ferryboat brought my family here, billowing out trails of black smoke into an environment that was otherwise all blue -- sky and sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His father ran a ferryboat between Honfleur and Le Havre, the big English Channel port. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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