If a vehicle ferries people or goods, it transports them, usually by means of regular journeys between the same two places. Every day, a plane arrives to ferry guests to and from Bird Island Lodge It was still dark when five coaches started to ferry the miners the 140 miles from the Silverhill colliery A helicopter ferried in more soldiers to help in the search. = transport. ferried ferrying ferries to carry people or things a short distance from one place to another in a boat or other vehicle ferry sb/sth (from sth) to sth
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers and sometimes also vehicles, usually across rivers or short stretches of sea. They had recrossed the River Gambia by ferry
A maneuver for moving a boat laterally across a current Usually accomplished by rowing or paddling upstream at an angle See also Reverse Ferry
transport by boat or aircraft a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule travel by ferry transport by ferry transport from one place to another