Definitions
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- noun a ferry that transports motor vehicles
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Examples
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Since last summer, the FBI has been on the lookout for two men who were seen taking a deep interest in a car-ferry in Seattle.
Boing Boing 2008
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As a downtown resident without a car it drives me nuts that I have to get out to car-ferry docks to get service to any islands… the water is a 10 min walk from my door!
Businessman proposes Nanaimo passenger ferry to mainland « Stephen Rees's blog 2008
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An airport is about 15 miles south; Sardinia has car-ferry services that link up to mainland Italian ports.
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The car-ferry Liberte, owned by the French state-run
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From this point freight can be transported, without breaking bulk, by a comparatively short car-ferry to the Long Island Railroad terminus at Bay Ridge, and thus a very large part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's floatage in New
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Paper No. 1150 Charles W. Raymond
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The car-ferry finally landed them on the southern peninsula.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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The car-ferry finally landed them on the southern peninsula.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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* After a thankfully not very thorough search by the security at the border crossing we had an enjoyable car-ferry ride over to France, entertaining ourselves playing with beauty product testers in the duty free shop and pretending we were on board a luxury cruise-liner
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