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Definition of "ferrymen" [ferrymen]

  • Plural form of ferryman. (noun)

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Use "ferrymen" in a sentence
  • "Two women "ferrymen" found room to row in front, the coachman attended to his horses, one of which was inclined to be restive, while a man, whose flaxen hair was so light it looked positively white against his red burnt neck, stood rowing behind us; and thus in three-quarters of an hour we reached the other side, in as wonderful a transport as the trains we had seen put on steamers in Denmark, Sicily, or the States, but much more exciting and primitive."
  • "“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen,” he says, recounting his bouts with writer's block, depression, dry flaky skin and existential torment."
  • "The lieutenant, in turn, who knew all the "rules and regulations" by heart, explained that the harbor police were not ferrymen, and that the police-boats had other functions to perform than that of transporting belated and penniless sailor-men to their ships."