to ferry
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2.0
- verb
- /ˈfɛri/
:
transportar
- The service will ferry passengers across the river every half hour.
- ferry passengers
- ferry supply
- ferry cargo
I thought those were ghost buses ferrying spectral passengers across the River Styx.
- I thought those were ghost buses ferrying spectral passengers across the River Styx.
Examples
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Families in those communities make their living by fishing and ferrying goods and people along the river.
Academic text (2003) -
Upon leaving that controlled region, Heinrich had the other two men ferried back to Earth station as soon as possible.
Fiction book (1999) -
I ferry them back and forth.
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Yeah, I ferry a boat to Freeport.
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We'll use the dinghy to ferry the students across while you make repairs.
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They were ferried over from Hell Town.
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We don't have enough small boats to ferry men to the destroyers.
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As soon as we get the A-okay, we'll begin ferrying them in from Bari.
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When the twins got to Dunkirk, they did what every other small boat did, ferried troops off the beach and out to the big ships waiting in the deeper water.
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Medicines, blankets, and tents were ferried by an Ilyushin-76 cargo plane to the disaster-hit area in Pakistan.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
377
1.4
To move people or goods from one place to another, often by vehicle
3
3.9
To send goods by ship, train, or plane
1
4.7
To move goods or people by a large flat boat on water
To travel or carry people and goods by a boat powered by steam
To move people and goods over shallow water or marshes in a boat with a big fan
Compounds
A small town in northeast West Virginia known for John Brown's 1859 raid on a government weapons store
How Long
6
8.3
3
4.0
420
2.8
275
1.0
29
2.0
62
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ferry comes from an old word meaning 'to carry'. To ferry someone or something is to 'carry' them from one place to another, often across water by boat or by another vehicle.