Crossword clues for ferries
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.]
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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 into light.
--Milton.To row me o'er the ferry.
--Campbell. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
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A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
Ferry bridge, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.
Ferry railway. See under Railway.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of ferry English) vb. (en-third-person singularferry)
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.