Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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.