ferrying

ferrying is the present participle and gerund of ferry.

Meaning of ferry

ferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)

(transitive) To carry; transport; convey.
- Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
(transitive) 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.
(transitive) 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.
(intransitive) 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...

ferrying (plural ferryings)

The act by which something is ferried.
- Their workday of love was one of ferryings and crossings from shore to shore, island to island, of perceptions into death[…]1998, William Goyen, Half a Look of Cain

plural	ferryings

What does ferrying mean?: Ferrying means the act by which something is ferried.
What is ferrying the present participle and gerund of?: Ferrying is the present participle and gerund of ferry.
What part of speech is ferrying?: Ferrying is a noun.
What is the plural of ferrying?: The plural of ferrying is ferryings.

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