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ferryboat

[fer-ee-boht] / ˈfɛr iˌboʊt /
NOUN
ferry
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The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

They also lent their manpower to the Deception Pass Bridge, which opened in 1935 over the protests of Berte Olson, Puget Sound’s first female ferryboat captain, who held rights to the route.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

With the death of his parents in a ferryboat fire, Norwegian author Per Petterson is consumed with the notion of family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

The Chippewa was elegantly appointed for a ferryboat.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

But Vigor’s attention is increasingly taken up by the lucrative work on the Navy’s gray ships over the green-and-white ferryboats.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017

Suddenly in the dark between the ferryboats I spied the gentle rise and fall of a yellow raft.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012

The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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