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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There were so few boats on the creek, and the current, in time of freshets, was so strong, that ferriage was seldom thought of.
From What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton
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 George Washington Cable
In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, the mail couriers were granted free ferriage over the rivers and other water courses which lay along their routes.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith
The gunboat returned about five p.m., accompanied by a consort, but a few shots from the Parrots, which had been kept in position, drove them away without any intermission having occurred in the ferriage.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke
"In 1693 the ferriage from New York to Brooklyn was eight stivers in wampum or a silver twopence."
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske
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