ferriage
Americannoun
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transportation by ferry
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the fee charged for passage on a ferry
Etymology
Origin of ferriage
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at ferry, -age
Example Sentences
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Here there was a further delaying for ferriage.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Colonel Johnson, whose brigade was crossing at Turkey Neck Bend, several miles below Burkesville, was scarcely so well provided with the means of ferriage as myself.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington
There was still but one ferry, that over the Kentucky River at Boonsborough; the price of ferriage was three shillings for either man or horse.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
When I was asked for the ferriage, I paid for two, and the ferryman asked where the other was.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
We could not continue the ferriage while this little vixen remained, for one well-directed shot would have sent either of the boats to the bottom.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington
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