Word Finder - ferry

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A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.

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A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.

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The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.

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To carry; transport; convey.

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Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

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To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.

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Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.

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To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.

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To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.

It is connected by ferry with South Portland.

Not even a ferry, a scow or other boat could move in the harbour.

They crossed the ferry where he had talked with Pierre the year before.

Barton appears in Domesday, when the ferry over the Humber existed.

The architecture was fantastic, but not near as exciting as the ride on a ferry.

You forget that death comes to the rich and the poor alike, and comes once for all; but remember, Acheron could not be bribed by gold to ferry the crafty Prometheus back to the sunlit world.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air line, the Southern, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western, the Norfolk & Southern and the Virginian railways, by many steamship lines, by ferry to Portsmouth (immediately opposite), Newport News, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and by electric lines to several neighbouring towns.

In 1873 the village was incorporated as Greenburgh, from the township of the same name which in 1788 had been set apart from the manor of Phillipsburgh; but the name Dobbs Ferry was soon resumed.

He promised to return in an hour and ferry the group back to Bird Song, which was less than a mile away.

There is a ferry service available if you want to take your car over to the island.

Before the erection of the Tay Bridge the town was the scene of much traffic, as the railway ferry from Tayport was then the customary access to Dundee from the south.

Near the ferry are a row of long parallel cuttings in the rock, which must be remains of the ancient docks, each being intended to take a ship.

A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis.

Even so, more by chance than intentionally, Buell's leading division was opposite the Landing, awaiting only a ferry, on the evening before the battle; Grant, however, declined to allow it to cross, as he thought that there would be no fighting for some days.

It is served by the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Oregon & Washington, and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railways, and by steamship lines, being accessible to sea-going vessels; a ferry connects with the Portland Electric railway.

From the landing stage a short street leads into the broad Avenue Jules Ferry or de la Marine running east to west and ending in the Place de la Residence, on the north side of which is the Roman Catholic cathedral and on the south side the palace of the French resident-general, with a large garden.

The Avenue Jules Ferry is intersected by a north-to south street running in a straight line over two miles.

The largest output of each of these ores in 1908 was in Stevens county; Ferry, King and Okanogan counties ranked next in the output of gold; Okanogan and Ferry counties in the output of silver; Okanogan in the output of copper; and King in the output of lead.

Nickel has been found near Keller in Ferry county, and molybdenum near Davenport, Lincoln (disambiguation)|Lincoln county.

Colombo was originally known as the Kalantotta or Kalany ferry.

The last-named connects with the main line at Ludington, Michigan, by means of a railway ferry across Lake Michigan; the Grand Trunk has a railway ferry from Milwaukee to Grand Haven.

Staten Island is connected by ferry with the borough of Manhattan, 5 m.

Appointed senator for life in 1875, he took his place among the moderate republicans, and from September 1880 to November 1881 was minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Jules Ferry.

The old man, Liam, had fed her and given her a handful of euro coins before putting her on the ferry.

It is a rapidly growing town, immediately opposite and suburban to the city of Sydney, with which, however, the only connexion is by steam ferry.

A steam ferry connects it with Calafat, on the Rumanian bank of the Danube, and there is a branch railway to Mezdra, on the main line Sofia-Plevna.

He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to Jules Ferry in the prefecture of the Seine.

His intimate friend, Governor Letcher, appreciating his gifts, sent him as a colonel of infantry to Harper's Ferry, where the first collision with the Union forces was hourly expected.

During this early period was known variously as Ferryhook, Ashley's Ferry and Van der Heyden's Ferry.

A steam railway ferry connects it with the island railway on Riigen, and so with Sassnitz, whence a regular steamboat mail service affords communication with Trelleborg in Sweden.

At the ferry on the Malatia-Kharput road (cuneiform inscription) it flows eastwards in a valley about a quarter of a mile wide, but soon afterwards enters a remarkable gorge, and forces its way through Mount Taurus in a succession of rapids and cataracts.

It is served by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railway systems, both transcontinental; and is connected by electric lines (and ferry) with San Francisco, and by five electric lines with Oakland.

The name of the village was derived from a Swede, Jeremiah Dobbs, whose family probably moved hither from Delaware, and who at the beginning of the last quarter of the 18th century had a skiff ferry, which was kept up by his family for a century afterwards.

The region was repeatedly raided by camp followers of each army; earthworks and a fort, commanding the Hudson ferry and the ferry to Paramus, New Jersey, were built; the British army made Dobbs Ferry a rendezvous, after the battle of White Plains, in November 1776, and the continental division under General Benjamin Lincoln was here at the end of January 1777.

The American army under Washington encamped near Dobbs Ferry on the 4th of July 1781, and started thence for Yorktown in the following month.

In 1764 a new post route between New York and Philadelphia passed through what is now the city, and direct ferry communication began with New York.

Fallieres (1883), retaining the same office in the second Jules Ferry ministry (1883-1885).

Ferry boats ply frequently between Pembroke Dock and Neyland on the opposite shore of the Haven.

Owing to its healthy and convenient situation, Broughty Ferry has become a favourite residence of Dundee merchants.

An electric street railway connects all the outlying districts with the ferry stations of Praia Grande and Sao Domingos.

In 1753 his son established a ferry over the river, and the place was called Harris's Ferry until 1785, when the younger Harris laid out the town and named it Harrisburg.

Three weeks later the forces under Banks were being driven over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, and Jackson was master of the Valley.

By this time he had already entered into politics; he had been chef du cabinet of Jules Ferry (1879-1881), though this did not distract him from his literary work.

With the Canadian shore Buffalo is connected by ferry, and by the International bridge (from Squaw Island), which cost $1,500,000 and was completed in 1873.

A steam ferry connects with the Rangoon-Mandalay line, and the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla.

There was formerly a ferry here, as there are at two other points.

The Kilif ferry is on the direct high-road between Samarkand and Akcha.

The ferry had long disappeared, and with it a considerable slice of the riverside alluvial soil, which had been washed into the stream by the action of floods.

Jules Ferry's colonial policy and of the Opportunist party, and in 1885 it was his use of the Tongking disaster which principally determined the fall of the Ferry cabinet.