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Carries back and forth
Answer for the clue "Carries back and forth ", 7 letters:
ferries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of ferry English) vb. (en-third-person singularferry)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferry \Fer"ry\, n.; pl. Ferries . [OE. feri; akin to Icel. ferja, Sw. f["a]rja, Dan. f[ae]rge, G. f["a]hre. See Ferry , v. t.] A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward ...
Usage examples of ferries.
Its shops and inns clung so closely to the shore of Lake Biwa that the masts of the fishing smacks, the pleasure boats, and the ferries beached there seemed to sprout from thatched roofs.
Instead of heading sixty-nine degrees true through a narrow straight passage, as would the ferries and any sane yachtsman, she held eighteen degrees true north and went to what would be considered the wrong side of Cliff Island.
Rosa had told her that the ferries were suspended until further notice.
The river was busy with ships, barges, ferries and rafts, for the strikes were over, crushed by the troops.
The dwarves therefore navigated with great care, taking ferries across the deepest parts of the estuary to avoid the giants.
It belonged to Tajik, captain of one the dwarven ferries that plied the estuary.
It would be chock full of boats and ferries, bound for the markets and the great Emporium.
The two scribes were coming over on one of the big Lucullan ferries Four different ferry services plied across the Tiber daily.