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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For the ferriage he took money, since that was his business; for the night's lodging and supper and breakfast he would have none of it.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary
The ferriage would amount to six dollars, and how he was to raise this sum he was, for a time, at a loss to determine.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney
Twice rivers of scalding water roared boiling across my path, and I had to delay till I could collect enough black timber from the forests to build rafts that would give me dry ferriage.
From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Even the most prejudiced advocates of the Arkite theory 42 Procopius, in his History of the Gothic War, mentions a curious popular British superstition concerning the ferriage of souls among the neighboring islands at midnight.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
His father, by accident, neglected to furnish him the money with which to pay his ferriage.
From Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Lewis, Harry A.
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