Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ferry
IPA transcription: [f'ɛɹi]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ferry
    Meaning: transport from one place to another
Usage examples
  • A smaller raft, as a sort of ferry, was also made.
  • I recollect now, I came over a bridge instead of a ferry.
  • Bowers went back again with Meares and managed to ferry over some wind clothes and odds and ends.
  • Two high iron towers supporting the cable of a current ferry add dignity to the twin settlements.
  • I found the ferry of Ratchik by asking a soldier and a German sailor there told me where the Kurdish Bazaar was.
  • He ran along the high road, took the path he had before taken, and reaching the ferry, interrogated the boatman.
  • Red Jacket was there saddling his, and when I'd packed the saddle-bags we three rode up Race Street to the Ferry by starlight.
  • Already the Northern officer in charge had evacuated Harper's Ferry, after having attempted to destroy the public buildings there.
  • The captain stopped, looked across the river, brightened under the influence of a new idea, and suddenly hastened back to the ferry.
  • With Jackson tied up before Harper's Ferry, Lee's defeat is sure, unless he retreats across the Potomac, and that would be equivalent to a defeat.