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ferry | x |

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 a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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.
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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.
  • 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

    * ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----