ferry /ˈfɛɹi/noun 4verb 4forms 3 noun4 •A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry. •A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.It can pass the ferry backward into light. — 1644 •The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete. •The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry. verb4 •To carry; transport; convey.Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety. •To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant. •To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores. •To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro. — 1667 formsferried · ferrying · ferries
