Definitions for ferries

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ferries fer·ry

Spelling: [fer-ee]

IPA: /ˈfɛr i/

Ferries is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in ferries (eefirrs).

Definitions for ferries

noun

1. a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
2. a ferryboat.
3. a service for flying airplanes over a particular route, especially the delivery of airplanes to an overseas purchaser or base of operations.
4. the legal right to ferry passengers, cargo, etc., and to charge for the service.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry or convey back and forth over a fixed route in a boat or plane.
2. to fly (an airplane) over a particular route, especially for delivery.

verb (used without object)

1. to go in a ferry.

Origin of ferries

before 1150; Middle English ferien, Old English ferian to carry; cognate with Old Norse ferja, Gothic farjan; akin to fare

Examples for ferries

The Dhīmar is also regularly employed as a worker on ferries.

ferries, tugs and steamers seemed to be coming at us from every side.

One evening, 29-year-old Mahmoud explained to me that he ferries money, not guns, to the Syrian people.

He ran one of the ferries across the river to the Virginia shore.

All morning long, ferries, trolleys, trains were jammed with the race-mad throng.

He had just come off the "trail," he said, at one of the North River ferries.

For hours I had been working my way toward the Oakland ferries.

But a new service that ferries passengers from Boston to Cape Cod has been a success – without huge government subsidies.

The ferries run every half-hour to the Russian mainland, but they take only a few dozen cars on each trip.

I don't mean yachts or ferries, but proper working ships: cargo and container and bulk and gas and oil, the ones we no longer see.