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Ferryboat   /fˈɛribˌoʊt/   Listen
Ferryboat

noun
1.
A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule.  Synonym: ferry.






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"Ferryboat" Quotes from Famous Books



... at San Diego, the southernmost city of California, from whence the Mexican line is in plain sight, but drove to the bay, where Wampus guided the limousine on to the big ferryboat bound for Coronado. They all left the car during the brief voyage and watched the porpoises sporting in the clear water of the bay and gazed abstractedly at the waving palms on the opposite shore, where lies nestled ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne

... sticks," said ignorant Maurice, who had never learned that the old heathens believed the souls of dead people went in a ferryboat across a dark river called the Styx, and that the old man who rowed the boat was ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various

... in watching Betty's nimble fingers, when the shrill and familiar whistle of the little ferryboat ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope

... missed one ferryboat, and, as there would be some little time before the other left, he strolled along the water front, looking at what few sights there were. Before he realized it, he had gone farther than he intended. He found himself in a rather lonely neighborhood, ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick

... be," piped the old woman, thrusting in. "There's been sich. Oncet, a long time ago, when your pap was a boy, goin' girlin' some, about when he begun a settin' up to me, a feller stole the ferryboat, but he was a terrible ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post


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