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- noun Plural form of
ferry-boat .
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Examples
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Though people were no longer buying residence lots and factory and business sites, they were compelled to ride on his cars and ferry-boats and to consume his water.
Chapter XX 2010
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Seeing as I had to have ferry-boats, I decided to build them myself.
Chapter XVI 2010
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We are walking along the pier when I notice that the river in front of us is spotted by clouds of ferry-boats, each helmed by a single guy in a massive reed hat.
Zac Hill: Being Cool With Having Stuff: At-Least-Potentially Guilt-Free Super Bowl Cruising Zac Hill 2011
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Between the two cities they could see the white ferry-boats on the water.
Chapter XVI 2010
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Twenty stories below lay the alternate glare and gloom of the city; far in the distance the lights of the ferry-boats plodded across the harbor like weary fireflies.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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We passed between the ferry-boats, then jibed to the right and went out past the lighthouse.
Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007
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We passed between the ferry-boats, then jibed to the right and went out past the lighthouse.
Third Strike Philip R. Craig 2007
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Crossing from among them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry-boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other ferry-boats: all travelling to and fro: and never idle.
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After encountering more than the usual crush in Broadway, for we were rather more than an hour in driving three miles in a stage, we crossed the Brooklyn Ferry in one of those palace ferry-boats, where the spacious rooms for passengers are heated by steam-pipes, and the charge is only one cent, or a fraction less than a halfpenny.
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She also marvelled at the whistles of the hundreds of vessels in the harbour — the long, low cries of the Sound steamers and ferry-boats when fog was on.
Sister Carrie 2004
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