ferryboat

Etymology

ferry + boat

noun

  1. (nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
    He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away 1893, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, The Federal reporter, volume 54, page 206
    The ferryboat "Argentina" rides toward Golden Gate, her ocean-going prow slicing the waves. 1940, LIFE, Sep 2, 1940, page 59
    It was on this vessel that the founder of the second largest ferryboat company on Puget Sound... 1983, Mary Stiles Kline, George Albert Bayless, Ferryboats: a legend on Puget Sound, link

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