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ferryboats

ferryboats is the plural of ferryboat.

Meaning of ferryboat

Noun

ferryboat (plural ferryboats)

  1. A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
    • He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away1893, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, The Federal reporter, volume 54, page 206

Questions about ferryboats

What is ferryboats the plural of?
Ferryboats is the plural of ferryboat.

Words near ferryboats in the dictionary

  1. ferryboater
  2. ferryboaters
  3. ferryboating
  4. ferryboatman
  5. ferryboatmen
  6. ferryboats
  7. Ferrybridge
  8. Ferryhill
  9. Ferryhill Station
  10. ferryhouse
  11. ferryhouses

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