ferry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈfeɹ.i/
homophone: fairy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: ferries
Etymology: From Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey, convey in a boat”), from Old English ferian (“to carry, convey, bear, bring, lead, conduct, betake oneself to, be versed in, depart, go”), from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną (“to make or let go, transfer, ferry”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring or carry over, transfer, pass through”).
Cognate with Dutch veren (“to ferry”), German dialectal feren, fähren (“to row, sail”), Danish færge (“to ferry”), Faroese, Icelandic ferja (“to ferry”), Norwegian Bokmål ferge, ferje (“ferry”), Norwegian Nynorsk ferja, ferje, ferju (“to ferry”), Swedish färja (“to ferry”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (farjan, “to sail, row”). Related to fare.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: ferryboat
text: To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.
ref: 2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2019, Opinion:
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: boat#Noun
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coordinate_terms: water bus
water taxi
glosses: A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
examples: text: It can pass the ferry backward into light.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: to row us o'er the ferry
ref: 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter:
text: She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:
glosses: A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
examples: text: In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.
glosses: The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.
examples: text: granted a ferry to
text: In 1794, the county court of Mason, granted a ferry to Benjamin Sutton, who owned two lots on the front of water street.
In 1801, the same privilege was re-granted to him by the court.
In 1797, a ferry was granted to Edmund Martin, by the county court.
In 1808, a ferry was granted, by the county court, to Jacob Boon.
In 1818, a ferry was granted, by the court, to J. K. Ficklin, and in 1823, another ferry was granted, by the court, to Benjamin Baylies.
Bonds with security, were executed by the grantees respectively. The ferrys of Ficklin and Baylies have not been in operation for two or three years past. Those of Sutton, Martin and Boon, have been in operation ever since their establishment. Boon and Martin are both dead. Sutton sold his lots and ferry to Armstrong. Powers and Campbell, who attended to the ferrys granted to Boon and Martin, live in the state of Ohio. Armstrong resides in Maysville.
ref: 1831 [1829 October 9], J.J. Marshall, Reporter of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals, quoting Judge Robertson, “Trustees of Maysville vs. Boon, &c. Appeal from Mason County Court”, in Reports of the Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Decided in the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, volume II, page 224:
glosses: The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Bonners Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Briton Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Broughty Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: cable ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: car ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: chain ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Connel Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: cruiseferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferriable
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferriage
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferryboat
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferry bridge
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferry car
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferryhouse
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferryman
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferry railway
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferry van
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferry wagon
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: ferrywoman
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Fiddler's Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Grove Ferry
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word: Harpers Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: horse ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Meikle Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Menzies Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Owston Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Queensferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: rhino ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Rock Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: Stoke Ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: superferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: train ferry
sense: Terms derived from ferry (noun)
word: West Ferry
Related terms: boat
ship