ferried
ferried is the simple past and past participle of ferry.
Meaning of ferry
Verb
ferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)
- To carry; transport; convey.
- Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
- To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
- Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
- To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
- To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
Words formed from ferried
Questions about ferried
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- Ferried is the simple past and past participle of ferry.
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