ferryboat
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of ferryboat
First recorded in 1400–50, ferryboat is from the late Middle English word feryboot. See ferry, boat
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Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Mr. Erdogan, 70, grew up in Istanbul, where his father worked as a ferryboat captain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
With the death of his parents in a ferryboat fire, Norwegian author Per Petterson is consumed with the notion of family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
There’s a pump track, a roller rink, soccer fields, tennis courts, pickleball courts, a disc golf course and — oh! — a brand-new playground with a ferryboat play structure.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
“These ferryboats, to get them up to high speed, have fairly large diesel engines in them,” he said of Kitsap Transit’s current fleet.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
The ferryboats traced quiet paths out across the water as the moon rose, casting fragile sheets of light down on the waves.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
Above the skyline, to the north and west, mountains rise into a darkening sky as bathtub ferryboats chug past beneath them on still saltwater the color of slate.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2010
The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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