ferryboat
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ferryboat
First recorded in 1400–50, ferryboat is from the late Middle English word feryboot. See ferry, boat
Example Sentences
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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
Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023
They will likely also know his life closely resembles Petterson’s: The author’s parents and brother died in a ferryboat fire that claimed 159 lives in 1990.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022
The Pennsylvania Railroad had previously its terminus for New York in New Jersey at Jersey City, and passengers were forced to ride a ferryboat across the Hudson to get to New York.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
At Lake Tinn, the rail cars would slide onto a ferryboat for the trip down the long, narrow waterway.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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