Crossword clues for ferrying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferry \Fer"ry\ (f[e^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ferried (-r[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Ferrying.] [OE. ferien to convey, AS. ferian, from faran to go; akin to Icel. ferja to ferry, Goth. farjan to sail. See Fare.]
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a vehicle; as, part of her day was spent ferrying the kids to and from school.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is ferried. vb. (present participle of ferry English)
WordNet
n. transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferry]
Usage examples of "ferrying".
Two dozen servants or more bustled around with great noise, setting rugs and cushions for them upon the terrace, all around the marble pool, and ferrying great platters from the kitchens, laden with fragrant pilaff and heaps of mashed aubergines, cabbage leaves and green peppers stuffed with meat and rice, skewers and thin-sliced roasted meats redolent of rich smoke.
They were ferrying World Federation Coordinators and chiefs and tribal leaders as fast as they could.
Dunneldeen just stared and thought of the flight hours ferrying dead Psychlos to the snow.
An ore plane, returning empty from a ferrying trip, had been swooped down upon by the Hawvins and blasted out of the sky with the loss of both pilot and copilot.
The ferrying of innumerable planes and equipment to safe places was now all complete.
More than half the time of every CS ship was spent in ferrying vaccines across known space—and for every disease that was eradicated, three more sprang up out of nowhere.
The Solar had won since it was easier to achieve a polar orbit by sending the ferrying spacecraft to Jupiter and using Jupiter's gravitational pull as a slingshot.
Though the medics had done all that their not-inconsiderable skill could do to repair Emily Boll’s broken body after the crash landing of the shuttle ferrying people from Landing to the new settlement at Fort, she was making a very slow recovery from the trauma.
Baedecker has spent two weeks ferrying it cross-country on an 'interservice courtesy call,' his first political job for NASA, giving rides to Navy and Army VIPs curious about the new first-line fighter.
And Spacelab itself has become a sort of a test project for the space station components we'll start ferrying up in a couple of years.
The other ferals too were holding up bravely: the little motley-colored one whom Keynes had patched up, after the avalanche, was showing himself particularly devoted, and ferrying his tiny loads of twenty men with great determination and speed.
I'll send them across immediately using their tenars in support of Bravo company then start ferrying the rest across to support the ridge.
But engineers had blown the bridges at Oak Grove and Tennessee before the horses got there and at both points the Posleen were rebuilding the structures while laboriously ferrying troops across.
He would bring Acorna and the Linyaari back to the Haven, but after that he would be free to use the AcaSecki up to the last minute in ferrying the Rushimese .