Definition of "ferry" []

• Nautical To transport (people, vehicles, or goods) by boat across a body of water. (verb-transitive)
• Nautical To cross (a body of water) by a ferry. (verb-transitive)
• To deliver (a vehicle, especially an aircraft) under its own power to its eventual user. (verb-transitive)
• To transport (people or goods) by vehicle, especially by aircraft. (verb-transitive)
• To cross a body of water on or as if on a ferry. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I hear, as you say, that the ferry is an option (the train, too)."
• "I * think* the ferry is actually $6 for a round trip, but have yet to make it to the islands myself."
• "And we started to, what we call ferry across the water."