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ˈferryman
[f. ferry n. + man.]
One who keeps or looks after a ferry.
1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. 162, [I] payd to the ferry⁓manes wyffe..xij. d. 1559Mirr. Mag., Dk. Clarence xxxiv, As wise as Goose the fery man. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 134 Charon grim Ferri-man, these streames doth guard. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xii. 55 The ferry-man began to be insolent. 1833H. Martineau Tale of Tyne i. 1 He was a pretty ferryman to let a passenger stand calling for his boat. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion i. iv. 35 The ancient ferryman of Hades.
attrib.1801M. G. Lewis in Tales of Wond. I. No. i. 7 The ferryman-fiend. |