ferry-boat

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

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Meanings

nounferry-boat (plural ferry-boats)

plural ferry-boats

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ferryboat.

    Three miles below town the ferry-boat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.

    1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219
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Chicago

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