Dictionary Entry
ferry
ferry is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
- 2intransitive verb
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
- 3transitive verb
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
- 4transitive verb
A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
- 5transitive verb
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
- 6noun
transport by boat or aircraft
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- 7noun
a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
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- 8verb
travel by ferry
- 9verb
transport by ferry
- 10verb
transport from one place to another
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