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ferry-boat
n. (alternative form of ferryboat English)
Usage examples of "ferry-boat".
It was true that Hilma had felt a faint tremour of seasickness on the ferry-boat coming from the city to the Oakland mole.
At this place we crossed the Monongehala, in a flat ferry-boat, which very commodiously received our huge coach and four horses.
The passage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of which I met a young colored man by the name of Nichols, who came very near betraying me.
They had barely pulled the train off the ferry-boat when he settled back with a sigh.