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Ferry vs Werry - What's the difference?

ferry | werry |

As a noun ferry

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

As a verb ferry

is to carry; transport; convey.

As an adverb werry is

very.

ferry

English

Noun

(ferries)
  • A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
  • A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
  • * Milton
    • It can pass the ferry backward into light.
  • * Campbell
    • to row me o'er the ferry
  • * around 1900 , O. Henry,
    • She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry , and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
  • The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.

    • Derived terms

    * ferry bridge * ferry railway

    Descendants

    * French: (l) * Malay: (l) * Swahili: (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To carry; transport; convey.
  • * 2007 , Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks :
    • We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
  • To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • 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.
  • To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
  • * Milton
    • They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.

    See also

    * boat * ship

    Anagrams

    * ----

    werry

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) very
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Frank J. Webb, title=The Garies and Their Friends, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Better let me make you up a little fire, the nights is werry cool," continued Ben. " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=John Bennett, title=Master Skylark, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="We must be off if we're to lie at Uxbridge overnight; for there hath been rain beyond, sir, and the roads be werry deep." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 30, 1890., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I spent a werry plessant arternoon there, and drove home in style on the Box Seat of a reel Company's Bus. The nex day I went to Higate Wood, another of the grate works of the good old Copperashun. }}

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