Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ferry
nounferrying (plural ferryings)
plural ferryings
- The act by which something is ferried.
Their workday of love was one of ferryings and crossings from shore to shore, island to island, of perceptions into death[…]
1998, William Goyen, Half a Look of Cain
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ferrying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ferrying.
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