ferryn.¹

Brit.

/ˈfɛri/, U.S.

/ˈfɛri/

Forms: Middle English feery (transmission error), Middle English feri- (in compounds), Middle English ffery, Middle English verye, Middle English–1500s ferye, Middle English–1600s ferri- (in compounds), Middle English–1600s fery, 1500s–1600s ferrie, 1500s–1600s ferrye, 1500s– ferry, 1600s ferrey, 1900s– fairy (regional); Scottish pre-1700 fairie, pre-1700 farie, pre-1700 fere, pre-1700 ferie, pre-1700 ferray, pre-1700 ferre, pre-1700 ferrey, pre-1700 ferrie, pre-1700 ferrye, pre-1700 fery, pre-1700 1700s– ferry.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Probably partly (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ferry v.

Etymology: Probably partly (i) < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic ferja ferry boat, Old Swedish færia ferry boat, river crossing (Swedish färja ), Old Danish færie ferry boat, river crossing (Danish færge , now chiefly in sense ‘ferry boat’), all suffixed derivatives < the Germanic verbs cited at ferry v.; compare the place names cited below), and partly (ii) < ferry v. Compare Middle Dutch vēre (feminine), vēr (neuter) river crossing, regular ferry service (Dutch veer (neuter), †veere (feminine), also (now regional) ferry boat), Middle Low German vēre (feminine) ferry boat, river crossing, regular ferry service, right to provide a regular ferry service, Middle High German ver , vere (feminine) ferry boat (German Fähre , also river crossing, regular ferry service). Compare also post-classical Latin feria (from 1283 in British sources; earlier with specific reference to the settlement of Ferrybridge (see below): 1086 as Fereia , a1139 as Feria , etc.; < English). Compare earlier ferrying n.Attested earlier in place names (all from Danelaw counties, and almost certainly reflecting the early Scandinavian word), including: Ferie, West Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now Ferrybridge), marking the river crossing of the Great North Road across the Aire (the ferry was replaced by a bridge at the end of the 12th cent.); Ferebi, East Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now North Ferriby) and Ferebi, Lincolnshire (1086; now South Ferriby), opposite each other on the Humber; Kinerdefere, Lincolnshire (1185; now Kinnard's Ferry); Stokeferie, Norfolk (1248; now Stoke Ferry); Blauncheferye, Fletton, Huntingdonshire (1279; now lost). Compare also early use in surnames, as John atte Ferye (1311), Gilbert atte Fery (1326).

1. A boat or ship used to carry passengers, vehicles, or goods across a river, relatively short sea crossing, etc., esp. as part of a regular service; = ferry boat n.Recorded earliest in ferryman n. (as a surname).car ferry, road ferry, train ferry, etc.: see the first element.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry

ferry1192

ferry boat1374

water-fare1610

transfer1883

cross-ferry1900

1192 in Publ. Pipe Roll Soc. (1926) II. 278 Robertus ferriman.

1290 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 (MED) [A boat called] Le ferye.

a1450 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 141 By the whiche fery..puple were yn grete perill and meny perisshed.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R4^v Shee soone to hond Her ferry brought.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 53 Bring them I pray thee..to the common Ferrie which trades to Venice.

1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Bac, a ferry.

1701 London Gaz. No. 3722/1 The French had sunk divers Ferries and other Boats in the River.

1775 N. W. Wraxall Cursory Remarks Tour N. Europe xvii. 367 The little town of Mewa, where I crossed the river in a ferry.

1853 A. S. Knight Diary 8 May in Trans. Oregon Pioneer Assoc. 1928 (1933) 40 There is no ferry here and the men will have to make one out of the tightest wagon-bed.

1899 R. W. Semon In Austral. Bush xviii. 529 We took our supper on board the ferry.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 147 (caption) Dover–Dunkirk train-ferry in Dover docks. The opening through which the trains run on to the ferry can be seen on the left.

1966 Motor Boating July 30 (caption) Two-week route includes travel by jet and prop planes, large ferries, small boats, [etc.].

2013 E. Heller Life's Illusions ix. 84 He boarded the ferry and sailed to Rodbyhavn, a small town in Denmark.

2. A crossing over a river or other stretch of water which is served by a ferry boat. Also: a place at which a ferry boat departs or lands. Now somewhat rare. N.E.D. (1895) interpreted quot. a1530 as illustrating a more general sense ‘a passage or crossing’, but is interpreted as showing this sense by Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Ferry, Ferrie. The precise sense intended is uncertain; with the variant reading forret cf. ?1611 at forehead n. 1b.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed

ferry1286

passage?a1400

trajecta1552

crossing1632

trajection1637

pass1649

rack1659

crossing-place1763

river crossing1839

transit1852

society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > place of

ferry1286

plying place1626

ferry nab1852

ferrying1868

1286 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 11th Rep.: App. Pt. III: MSS Corporations Southampton & King's Lynn (1887) 239 in Parl. Papers (C. 5060–II) XLVII. 1 In passagio aque Lenne que vocatur ferye.

1360 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 [A ferry called] la verye [with dues for carriage from the market place to] la verye [aforesaid].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 156 Fery over a watyr.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 285 Besyd Landoris the ferrye our thai past.

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. l. 6205 At the Ferry [a1500 Nero forret; a1550 Wemyss fery] off the Hill thai mete.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges iii. 28 They folowed him, & wanne y^e ferye of Iordane.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 25 There be 4..Places namid as ferys apon the Water of Lindis.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E3 The ferry where we were transported into the Ile of France.

1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 378 A sturgeon of 8 foot long was taken up at Clifton ferry.

1749 Apol. Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 125 Passing over this Ferry they came into Rhode Island.

1775 H. P. Wyndham Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire & Wales 42 Just above the ferry is the seat of Mr. Vernon.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. xvi. 95 We blow..when we come nigh the taverns..or post offices, or ferries.

a1854 H. Cockburn Memorials of his Time (1856) vi. 341 Nothing but wretched pierless ferries, let to poor cottars, who rowed or hauled or pushed a crazy boat across.

1938 J. Betjeman Oxf. Univ. Chest v. 97 At the ferry you board a punt or canoe..and paddle down the stream of the Cherwell.

1992 E. Coffman Somewhere along Way iii. 65 The man who waits at the ferry will get across sometime.

a. A service carrying passengers, goods, etc., across a stretch of water by boat; a regular ferry service.Recorded earliest in ferry right n. at Compounds 2.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying

ferry1393

ferriagec1450

ferrying1641

1393 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 101 (MED) [A messuage in Bishops Lenne with a] ferieright.

1394 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 89 (MED) [The profits of a] ferye [in Conweye in Wales].

1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 77^v Vnto the whiche house she gaue the ouersight & profyt of the same ferry.

1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 170 Over against Newberrie lyes the Town of Salisbury, where a constant Ferry is kept.

1700 3rd Pt. Mod. Rep. 294 The Defendant had petitioned the king to destroy the Ferry.

1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia x. 193 Not to interfere with the ferry of Poscharewaz.

1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. i. 20 A ferry was established where London Bridge now stands.

1912 Financial Times 20 Feb. 6/5 The traffic is being diverted to the old routes used before the ferry was inaugurated.

1946 Times 26 Sept. 2/3 Continuance of the ferry service by the company would be difficult or impossible... It would be immoral that a Minister of the Crown should make an Order thus destroying a ferry created by the Crown.

2007 P. Skaja-Bell & C. Wilson Otsego i. 18 John McDonald established a ferry at the Otsego town site in 1855.

b. Law. The right to provide a service of this type, and to charge a fee for its use; = right of ferry n. at Phrases 2.

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society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of taking toll or taxes > specific

thirl-multure1423

multure meal1547

multure1565–6

murage1636

ferrya1638

a1638 R. Brownlow Rep. Diverse Cases: 2nd Pt. (1651) 303 He agreed that if the King grant a Ferrey, and that every passenger shall pay for his passage four pence, this is good.

1685 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 388/2 Ferry, is a liberty by prescription, or the Kings Grant, to have a Boat for passage upon a great Stream for Cariage of horses and men for reasonable toll.

a1701 B. Shower Reports (1708) I. 257 If a Ferry were granted at this Day, he that accepts such Grant, is bound to keep a Boat for the Publick Good.

1843 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer X. 161 The defendants..were possessed of a certain ferry across..the River Mersey.

1862 Law Reports XXXI. Common Pl. 247 The plaintiffs are the lessees of an ancient ferry.

1912 Southwestern Reporter 140 201/2 When an applicant applies for a ferry he must state in his notice that he is the owner of the land at the point where the ferry is to be established.

2006 A. Cooper Bridges, Law & Power Medieval Eng. iv. 133 Edward II granted the ferry at Sandwich to the mayor and bailiffs of the town; it was worth 40s a year.

4. Chiefly humorous or ironic. A fast or regular long-distance ocean crossing by ship. Chiefly in Atlantic ferry. Now historical and rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > jocularly of a long passage

ferry1839

1839 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 21 Sept. The communication between this country and America is performed with so much rapidity, and in so short a time, by steamers, that it has been designated the Atlantic Ferry.

1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 578/2 The ‘Atlantic ferry’ will take you across in a little more than a week.

1907 Daily Chron. 11 June 10/4 Nearly all the Australian States are now offering assisted passages to selected immigrants... Why should not the Imperial Government take a hand in this, and in certain cases contribute the other £6, and thus realise the ‘free ferry’?

1930 C. E. Lee (title) The Blue Riband: the romance of the Atlantic ferry.

2003 D. A. Butler Age of Cunard iii. 68 The North Atlantic run..was becoming known as the Atlantic Ferry.

a. An aircraft or air service for transporting passengers or goods, esp. on a relatively short, regular route. Also: a service for delivering aircraft to where they are required by flying; an aircraft flown as part of such a service. Cf. ferry v. 5, air ferry n. at air n.¹ Compounds 2.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > regular

ferry1908

ferrying2004

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers

liner1905

tramp1905

airliner1908

taxi1909

taxi plane1909

air ferry1916

air freighter1919

passenger plane1919

air taxi1920

freighter1920

flying boxcar1932

ferry1939

shuttle plane1944

day coach1945

feeder liner1946

charter1959

night coach1959

1908 Times 21 Dec. 6/2 An invading army of 100,000 men may be transported by a kind of aerial ferry of 5,000 aeroplanes.

1939 Flight 9 Nov. 373/1 The chances that an enemy machine might masquerade as a ferry are very small.

1963 Pop. Sci. June 78/2 It has become a 47-passenger aerial ferry for California's Avalon Air Transport, and daily hops a 28-mile sliver of the Pacific.

1992 J. G. Martin & J. M. Thies China Airlift: Hump III. 246/1 Entered Ferry Command at Memphis.., flew domestic and foreign ferries out of that base.

b. Science Fiction and Astronautics. A spacecraft used, esp. repeatedly, to transport passengers and cargo over a relatively short distance, as between an orbiting craft and a planet's surface. In early use more fully ferry rocket. Cf. shuttle n.¹ 8c.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > module or capsule

landing craft1940

ferry1951

capsule1954

space capsule1954

module1961

service module1961

Lem1962

moonbug1963

1951 A. C. Clarke Exploration of Space 78 At the end of these manœuvres, which would occupy only a few hours, it would be back in a stable, circular orbit waiting to be refuelled and serviced, and the crew could be taken down to Earth by one of the winged ‘ferry’ rockets.

1952 Space Sci. Fiction Sept. 66/2 It was easy, too, to enter the planet Grekh; you just boarded an interworld ferry from either of the two sister-planets.

1960 F. Gaynor Dict. Aerospace 90 Ferry rocket, the final step of the planned piloted space vehicle, designed for transporting personnel between earth and the terminal orbit.

1969 Times 3 June Suppl. p. iii/8 The two-stage module—the disposable landing ferry that takes the astronauts from their circling space~craft to the lunar surface—is at the heart of the American plans to land two men on the moon.

1990 Flight Internat. 25 July 6/1 Cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Alexander Balandin fixed two..panels back on to the side of the descent capsule of their Soyuz TM9 ferry.

2012 B. W. Aldiss Finches of Mars xvii. 92 The ferry carried the new exiles from Armstrong up to the Confu, waiting in orbit.

Phrases

P1. Used in figurative expressions alluding to death, as to take the ferry, etc., with reference to the boat in which Charon transported the spirits of the dead to the underworld in classical mythology, or to the passage made by this boat. Cf. Charon n. Now rare.

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]

forsweltc888

sweltc888

adeadeOE

deadc950

wendeOE

i-wite971

starveOE

witea1000

forfereOE

forthfareOE

forworthc1000

to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE

queleOE

fallOE

to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE

to shed (one's own) blood?a1100

diec1135

endc1175

farec1175

to give up the ghostc1175

letc1200

aswelta1250

leavea1250

to-sweltc1275

to-worthc1275

to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290

finea1300

spilla1300

part?1316

to leese one's life-daysa1325

to nim the way of deathc1325

to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330

flit1340

trance1340

determinec1374

disperisha1382

to go the way of all the eartha1382

to be gathered to one's fathers1382

miscarryc1387

shut1390

goa1393

to die upa1400

expirea1400

fleea1400

to pass awaya1400

to seek out of lifea1400–50

to sye hethena1400

tinea1400

trespass14..

espirec1430

to end one's days?a1439

decease1439

to go away?a1450

ungoc1450

unlivec1450

to change one's lifea1470

vade1495

depart1501

to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513

to decease this world1515

to go over?1520

jet1530

vade1530

to go westa1532

to pick over the perch1532

galpa1535

to die the death1535

to depart to God1548

to go home1561

mort1568

inlaikc1575

shuffle1576

finish1578

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

relent1587

unbreathe1589

transpass1592

to lose one's breath1596

to make a die (of it)1611

to go offa1616

fail1623

to go out1635

to peak over the percha1641

exita1652

drop1654

to knock offa1657

to kick upa1658

to pay nature her due1657

ghost1666

to march off1693

to die off1697

pike1697

to drop off1699

tip (over) the perch1699

to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703

sink1718

vent1718

to launch into eternity1719

to join the majority1721

demise1727

to pack off1735

to slip one's cable1751

turf1763

to move off1764

to pop off the hooks1764

to hop off1797

to pass on1805

to go to glory1814

sough1816

to hand in one's accounts1817

to slip one's breatha1819

croak1819

to slip one's wind1819

stiffen1820

weed1824

buy1825

to drop short1826

to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839

to get one's (also the) call1839

to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840

to unreeve one's lifeline1840

to step out1844

to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845

to hand in one's checks1845

to go off the handle1848

to go under1848

succumb1849

to turn one's toes up1851

to peg out1852

walk1858

snuff1864

to go or be up the flume1865

to pass outc1867

to cash in one's chips1870

to go (also pass over) to the majority1883

to cash in1884

to cop it1884

snuff1885

to belly up1886

perch1886

to kick the bucket1889

off1890

to knock over1892

to pass over1897

to stop one1901

to pass in1904

to hand in one's marble1911

the silver cord is loosed1911

pip1913

to cross over1915

conk1917

to check out1921

to kick off1921

to pack up1925

to step off1926

to take the ferry1928

peg1931

to meet one's Maker1933

to kiss off1935

to crease it1959

zonk1968

cark1977

to cark it1979

to take a dirt nap1981

1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) Old Oliver's gon to the dogs, Oh! No I do mistake, He's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is cal'd the Stygian Lake.

1723 J. Swift Epit. Judge Boat 24 Our Boat is now sail'd to the Stygian Ferry, There to supply old Charon's leaky Wherry.

a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 24 From hence then take thy ferry o'er to hell!

1869 W. James in Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 1 People who are comfortably in possession of a season-ticket over the Stygian ferry.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vi. 266 What are you going to do with your pictures when you take the ferry? Leave them to the nation?

P2.

right of ferry n. the right to provide a ferry service and to charge a fee for its use; = sense 3b; cf. ferry right n. at Compounds 2.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > right of ferrying

right of ferry1761

1761 Information for James Earl of Moray 11 The Right of Ferry, or Passage, over this Public River.

1774 London Chron. 13 Sept. 264/2 A right of ferry claimed by the latter over the river Mena on the great road between Chester and Holyhead.

1865 Amer. Law Reg. 13 515 It is sometimes asserted that there is a right of ferry which at common law is appendant or appurtenant to riparian ownership upon navigable fresh-water rivers.

1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 June 3 Compulsory acquisition of the ‘right of ferry’ may require a private Act of Parliament to be promoted by the regional council.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

(a) In senses 1 and 3a, as ferry passenger, ferry place, ferry way, ferry wharf, etc. See also ferry boat n.

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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 156 Fery place.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1692/2 The B[ishop]..cryed to a couple of fery boyes, to ron and holde him, that last ranne away.

1694 G. Meriton Guide Surveyors xiv. 138 All other Profits..are to be levied, recovered and received by the Ferry-Warden.

1755 Bill Bridge between Sandwich & Stonore 9 The present Ferry-way or Passage over the said Water or Haven, is now..constantly rated and assessed by the Churchwardens.

1845 Liverpool Mercury 23 May 175/2 The public had got a wrong impression as to the objection to publishing the ferry receipts.

1864 W. Miller Jottings Kent 263 The staff of officers comprised a ferry warden, constable, two ferrymen, and a ferry keeper.

1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxviii. 39 The Lethean ferry-boatload.

1951 Motor Boating Apr. 50 Docks along the waterfront, near the ferry wharves.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 11/1 One drives about five miles from the ferry slip..and down a steep windy road to a plateau above the beach.

2006 Scots Mag. June 589/1 Ferry passengers are enjoying an hour and a half ashore.

(b) In sense 5a, as ferry flight, ferry plane, etc.

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1917 Flying 28 Nov. 296/1 Should you chance to live in eastern or south eastern counties you may see them going over..flown by ferry pilots.

1942 Times Weekly 9 Sept. 9/1 Filling petrol tanks of United States ferry planes at airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts.

1965 Los Angeles Times 19 May i. 16/1 (heading) Pilot apparently wandered over border by mistake during routine ferry mission.

2009 W. Langewiesche Fly by Wire vi. 133 A crew departing on a ferry flight to Senegal in an empty Lufthansa Boeing 707.

ferry hire n.

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1228 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Feri(e Ad recipiendum de eis ferihyre.

1808 R. Drummond Illustr. Grammatical Parts Guzerattee, Mahratta & Eng. Gloss. at Ootaroo The interrogatory adage—‘Do they demand ferry hire of the drowned.’

1917 S. P. Sherman On Contemp. Lit. 182 Lucian set the infernal gods to quarreling over the ferry hire in Hades.

2010 West Briton (Nexis) 4 Feb. 30 There is a £10 registration fee to cover event expenses such as ferry hire, parking and advertising.

ferry service n.

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1839 Bristol Mercury 14 Sept. I am a boatman in the ferry service, and have been so for 8 years.

1907 Pop. Mech. Oct. 1146/2 During the forty years of regular ferry service across San Francisco Bay..300,000,000 passengers have been carried.

2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 56/3 An inexpensive weekly ferry service from Kigoma port.

ferry terminal n.

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1891 Logansport (Indiana) Chron. 26 Dec. Walter Katte, chief engineer of the New York Central railroad, has made plans for a new ferry terminal for the West Shore.

1916 P. P. Whitham Planning Alaskan Ports 22 This is probably the largest ferry terminal in the world.

2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 152 I walked along the main road to the ferry terminal.

C2.

ferry bridge n. †(a) (in Bermuda) a bridge used to cross to a place at which ferries arrive and depart (obsolete); †(b) a means of transporting a railway train across a river or other stretch of water, consisting of a boat with a raised deck designed to support the train (obsolete); (c) a bridge used to board or disembark from a ferry.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry > types of

toni1582

horse-boat1591

bac1676

ferry bridge1696

rope-ferry1755

pont1776

ferry flat1805

steam-ferry1812

steam ferry-boat1812

night boat1839

bar-boat1857

train ferry-boat1867

car ferry1884

grind1889

swinging-bridge1892

train ferry1900

night ferry1948

SeaCat1954

walla-walla1957

1696 Minutes Council Governor of Bermuda in Bermuda Hist. Q. (1946) 3 iii. 125 Ordered that Joseph Cox Do according to a late order of the second of March last take care that the ferry Bridges be forthwith wholly repaired and made good And that he bee allowed 4s 4d p day for the same.

1788 Bermuda: Act further for supplying Deficiency of Fund 27 To Bridger Goodrich, Esquire, to be applied to the Completion of the Ferry Bridges, Ninety Pounds.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 837/2 Ferry-bridge, a form of ferry-boat in which the railway-train moves on to the elevated deck, is transported across the water and then lands upon the other side.

1884 Biddeford (Maine) Jrnl. 6 Aug. 1/4 In consequence of the destruction of the ferry bridges and buildings the excursions of the steamer Stockton to West Point will be discontinued until further notice.

1996 A. G. Adams Hudson River Guidebk. (ed. 2) ii. 84/2 (caption) Remains of the ferry bridges are seen in the foreground.

ferry craft n. vessels which serve as ferries; (as a count noun) a vessel of this kind.

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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 612 For fery craft na fraucht he thocht to crawe.

1844 Acts State of Louisiana (2nd Session 16th Legislature) 18 To keep in good order good and sufficient ferry crafts.

1922 National Geographic Mag. Nov. 514/2 Dwarfed replicas of British Channel packet-boats ply as ferry craft between Lisbon and this miniature Brooklyn.

2012 L. Yun & A. Bliault High Performance Marine Vessels viii. 305 Almost one third of the world inventory of fast ferry craft operate in this region.

ferry flat n. U.S. (now chiefly historical) a flatboat (flat-boat n. 2) used as a ferry.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of

sedge-boat1336

shout1395

scout1419

pink1471

punt-boatc1500

palander1524

pram1531

punt1556

bark1598

sword-pink1614

pont1631

schuit1666

pontoon1681

bateau1711

battoe1711

flight1769

scow1780

keel-boat1786

ferry flat1805

ark1809

panga1811

mackinaw boat1812

mudboat1824

pinkie1840

mackinaw1842

sharpie1860

sculling float1874

pass-boat1875

sled1884

scow sloop1885

sharp1891

johnboat1894

ballahoo1902

pram1929

goelette1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry > types of

toni1582

horse-boat1591

bac1676

ferry bridge1696

rope-ferry1755

pont1776

ferry flat1805

steam-ferry1812

steam ferry-boat1812

night boat1839

bar-boat1857

train ferry-boat1867

car ferry1884

grind1889

swinging-bridge1892

train ferry1900

night ferry1948

SeaCat1954

walla-walla1957

1805 Evening Fire-side 9 Mar. 104/3 No less than..ten ferry flats, between sixty and eighty canoes, and a house, were seen descending the river among the ice.

1884 Harper's Mag. June 124/2 Of smaller vessels there were ‘covered sleds’, ‘ferry flats’, and ‘Alleghany skiffs’.

2010 M. J. Smith Tinclads in Civil War v. 121 After the Lexington had passed, a ferry flat attempted to run out of a hidden creek and make it across the river.

ferry house n. the residence of a ferryman; (also) a building providing shelter to passengers awaiting transport by ferry.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > of people in specific employment

almonry1440

ferry house1595

prefecture1802

station house1805

pilothouse1812

lodging1826

schoolhouse1842

wardenry1859

adviserate1938

1595 G. Owen Descr. Mylford Havon in Descr. Penbrokeshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. No. 1) (1897) 551 Above King rode is the Ferry where the Comon passage is kepte right against the ferry house.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Draining Fens liv. 386/2 To make Ferryes and Ferrey houses where need is.

1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 3 Oct. in Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 31 So was Obliged to dine with an ill natured Scold at the ferry house who gave us Potatoes & Tatogue with an intolerable dirty Cloth.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. lx. 329 A ferryhouse stretches out like a sickle in the blue sea.

1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xxiii. 281 The little ferry that shunts back and forth between Bowness and the old ferry house on the opposite shore.

† ferry-loop n. Obsolete rare the route taken by a ferry. N.E.D. (1895) regarded quot. 1742 as evidence for a compound ferry-look, based on the reading in the 1769 edition of the text.

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1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. iii. 146 [The keeper of this ferry has the right] to dredge for Oysters within the Compass of his Ferry-loop [1762, 1769 Ferry-look], which extends..sixty Fathoms on each Side of the Castle.

ferry-louper n. [ < ferry n.¹ + Scots louper wanderer, vagabond (16th cent. in Older Scots; < loup v. + -er suffix¹)] Orkney a person who is not a native of Orkney; an incomer or visitor from the mainland.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on island > one who has crossed from mainland to Orkneys

ferry-louper1822

1822 A. Peterkin Notes Orkney & Zetland i. ii. 21 A Ferry Louper, (the name by which all persons not natives of Orkney are designated by the vulgar).

1902 Celtic Monthly Feb. 104/2 The would-be ‘ferry louper’ must content himself with the shelter of the ruined inn.

2005 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 14 He..explained that the thing most Orcadians would not wear was a ferry-louper coming into their patch.

ferry master n. originally U.S. a person in charge of a ferry; (also) a person who collects the tolls or fares for a ferry service.

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1810 Public Laws State N.Y., 33rd Session 38 The ferry masters shall constantly keep in their employ not less than two men to row in every barge.

1886 Central Reporter 3 53/1 His successor in the office of ferrymaster returned to the Company..much more toll-money than Moore did for the corresponding period of the preceding year.

1902 Secret Service 25 Apr. 31/1 The permit for the removal of the ‘corpse’ was given to the ferry master by the inspector.

2010 R. Easton Naked in Eden 323 All the ferry masters who operated the Daintree River Ferry were fascinating characters whom I greatly admired.

ferry nab n. [ < ferry n.¹ + nab n.¹] English regional (north-western) a promontory from which a ferry operates; cf. nab n.¹ 1.Apparently only attested in the place name Ferry Nab, on the eastern shore of Windermere, Cumbria.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > place of

ferry1286

plying place1626

ferry nab1852

ferrying1868

1852 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Dec. 279 In weathering the Ferry Nab the Victoria touched the ground.

1991 Times 22 June 17/4 The main public launch point at Ferry Nab, which can manage only about 210 boats a day.

ferry operator n. (a) a person who or company which runs a ferry service; (b) a person who pilots, or is in charge of, a ferry.

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1894 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 16 July Luther C. Challiss came to Atchison in 1855 from Booneville, Mo... He remained here continuously until 1861, as merchant, banker, ferry operator, and real estate operator.

1912 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 31 Oct. 1/5 The ferry operator, Klein, observed the danger, but it was too late to check the speed of the ferry boat, which was struck broadside by the craft.

1941 Life 17 Nov. 51/1 She is head of the great, heterogeneous house of Vanderbilt which was founded by the original wily Commodore, ferry operator and owner of the New York Central Railroad.

1996 Marine Engineers Rev. Oct. 25 A growing number of traditional ferry operators serving key routes in UK, Baltic, Mediterranean, Asian and American arenas are complementing or replacing conventional tonnage with large high speed passenger/vehicle vessels.

2006 New York Sun (Nexis) 9 Jan. 3 More than two years after a Staten Island Ferry crashed when its pilot passed out at the helm, a federal judge in Brooklyn is expected to sentence the ferry operator and his supervisor today.

ferry pole n. a long pole used to propel a small ferry boat.

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a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 23 There are..A ferry-poal, and frogs in Stygian waves.

1851 Knickerbocker Mar. 213 Seizing his ferry-pole, he sprang into a long, low, slimy boat.

2002 M. Cadnum Forbidden Forest i. 7 John pulled the ferry pole from the current and plunged it deep again.

† ferry-railway n. Obsolete a means of transporting a railway train across a river or other stretch of water, consisting of a section of underwater track with an elevated carriage designed to support the train.

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1860 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 7 Dec. At the ferry-way the water was fifteen feet higher than the ordinary level, being on the ninth stair of the ferry railway.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 837/2 Ferry-railway, one whose track is on the bottom of the water-course and whose carriage has an elevated deck which supports the train.

ferry right n. (also ferry rights) Law (now chiefly historical) the right to provide a ferry service and to charge a fee for its use; cf. sense 3b.

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1393Ferieright [see sense 3a].

1501 Will of Adam Outlawe in C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) IV. 621 (modernized text) I bequeath to him a tenement and 2 ferry-rights.

1819 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 May They have sold the said ferries and ferry-rights.

1915 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 63 732 The courts are not going to allow the owners of ancient ferry rights to clog the wheels of progressive transportation.

2011 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 19 July 26 Edward III granted them and their successors ferry rights on the Mersey.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ferryv.

Brit.

/ˈfɛri/, U.S.

/ˈfɛri/

Forms: Old English færigan, Old English fergan, Old English fergean, Old English ferian, Old English ferigan, Old English ferigean, Old English fyrigan (rare), late Old English ferigen, early Middle English uere (south-west midlands), early Middle English uerie (south-west midlands), Middle English fere, Middle English ferie, Middle English verie (east midlands), Middle English very (south-eastern), Middle English verye (southern), Middle English–1500s fery, Middle English–1600s fery, 1500s ferrye, 1500s ferye, 1500s ferynge (present participle), 1500s phery, 1500s–1600s ferrie, 1500s– ferry, 1600s ferring (present participle); Scottish pre-1700 ferre, pre-1700 fery, pre-1700 1700s– ferry.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon ferian to sail, to travel (Middle Low German vēren to cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat), Old High German ferien , ferren to cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat, to convey or transport (people or goods) by ferry boat, to sail, navigate, or direct the course of (a vessel) (Middle High German vern to travel by boat, German (now regional: Baden, Switzerland) fähren to row), Old Icelandic ferja to transport (a person or thing), to convey or transport (people or goods) by ferry boat, Gothic farjan to travel, (specifically) to travel by boat, all causative formations < the Germanic base of fare v.¹ The later semantic development is probably influenced by ferry n.¹ Compare fere v.¹In Old English the prefixed form geferian (compare y- prefix) is also attested; compare also ætferian to take or carry away (at- prefix²), aferian to take away, remove (compare a- prefix¹), forferian to cause to die (compare for- prefix¹), oferferian to carry over, transfer, remove (compare over- prefix), offerian to carry off (compare of- prefix), oþferian to take away, carry off (compare oth prep.), tōferian to remove, get rid of, to pull apart, to disperse (compare to- prefix²), wiþferian to rescue (compare with- prefix).

†I. Senses relating to the general action of conveying or transporting.

a. transitive. To carry, convey, or transport from one place to another. Obsolete.

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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)]

haveeOE

ferryOE

weighOE

bearOE

take?a1160

weve13..

carry1348

passa1350

tow1391

geta1393

convey1393

winc1400

transport1483

set1487

convoy1500

traduce1535

port1566

repair1612

vehiculate1628

transmute1683

transplant1769

gallant1806

transit1859

inveigh1878

waltz1884

sashay1928

conduct-

OE Beowulf (2008) 333 Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas?

OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 300 On manegum wisum man mæg wyrcan ælmyssan:..gif man seocne geneosað..oððe gyf he forðfarene ferað [a1225 Lamb. fereð] to byrgene.

OE Seasons for Fasting (transcript of damaged MS) 148 Hine fyren scryd..on weg ferede on neorxnawong.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se biscop of Lincolne..wearð þa sone dead, & man ferode hine to Lincolne mid micel wurðscipe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5266 He uerde forð in sæ, uereden hine vðen.

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 123 Þe fend him deriiþ, And is soul to helle he feriiþ.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1790 The kyng..watz kaȝt bi þe heles, Feryed out bi þe fete.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L7 We..ferrie it to the deuil.

b. transitive (reflexive) and intransitive. To travel; to go. Obsolete.Only in Old English.In quots. OE², OE³ (i.e. in apparent intransitive use) perhaps showing a scribal error for a form of fere v.¹ 1.

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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 82 Ic wolde ðine ðenunge sylf nu gearcian, gif ic me mid feðunge ferian mihte.

OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 179 Þæt min sawul to ðe siðian mote on þin geweald,..mid friþe ferian.

OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxvii. 8 Þonne god..geond westena wide ferað.

II. Senses relating to the action of conveying or transporting over water, and extended uses.

a. transitive. To convey or transport (people, goods, etc.) over water; (in later use) spec. to convey by ferry boat. Frequently with across, over. Also occasionally intransitive.From the 15th cent. chiefly with reference to short or regular journeys across a river or other stretch of water.

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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > ferry

ferryOE

society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > ferry

ferryOE

transfrete1594

transwaft1635

OE Riddle 14 7 Hwilum wycg byreþ mec ofer mearce, hwilum merehengest fereð ofer flodas frætwum beorhtne.

OE Andreas (1932) 293 We ðe estlice mid us willað ferigan freolice ofer fisces bæð.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14014 Com þer an fisc liðe and fereden me to londe.

c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 14 (MED) Sumtyme fro þat hill to rome folk wer feried with botis.

1587 F. James in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 199 For ferrienge oure horses..from Lambeth..6d.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 21 In this case without ferrying ouer the horse there was nothing due vnto the bargeman.

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xi. 110 Charon is tyr'd, with ferring soules to hell.

1701 London Gaz. No. 3722/2 Before night almost half of them were ferried over.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 38 They themselves once ferried o'er the wave..are emancipate and loosed.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iii. 45 A girl who had ferried me over the Severn.

1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xiii. 284 The owner of a ferry..ferries only when he chooses.

1874 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 240 He was ferried to the French bank.

1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door v. 122 A boatman ferried me out to the yacht.

1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Nov. 1/7 Small ships..for ferrying cargoes.

2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec. m6/2 Guests are taxied to a dock, then ferried on a small boat across the emerald shallows.

b. transitive. In extended use, without reference to boats or water: to convey (people, goods, etc.) from one place to another, esp. by means of short or regular journeys. Frequently with prepositions or adverbs, as about, around.The meaning of this sense overlaps with sense 1a, but there is no evidence of historical continuity between the two senses.

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1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Ferrier,..one who ferries or conveys the rock salt from the workings to the shaft.

1905 Collier's 25 Nov. 20/1 You and I..are ferried about in an automobile..and fancy it exhilarating.

1967 Observer 16 July 1/6 Twenty holidaymakers injured in a derailed train..were ferried to hospital by an RAF helicopter.

1970 H. Waugh Finish me Off (1971) 163 Then we warn the doormen and the super on her building that it wouldn't look good for them to ferry customers to her apartment.

1991 Washington Post Mag. 26 May 27/1 A tangled web of clunky conveyor belts, roller tracks and dumbwaiters that ferries books back and forth from building to building.

2012 Daily Tel. 25 May 20/2 Hundreds of purple London-style cabs..have been commissioned to ferry the guests around town.

†a. transitive. To sail, navigate, or direct the course of (a vessel). Obsolete.Only in Old English.

ΚΠ

eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxvi. 26 Aulixes..let him behindan hyrnde ciolas nigon and hundnigontig, nænigne þonan merehengesta ma þonne ænne ferede on fifelstream, famigbordon ðriereðre ceol.

OE Cynewulf Crist II 853 Nu is þon gelicost swa we on laguflode ofer cald wæter ceolum liðan geond sidne sæ, sundhengestum, flodwudu fergen.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1009 Her on þissum geare wurdon þa scypo gearwe þe we ær ymbe spræcon..& hi man ða ealle togædere ferode to Sandwic.

b. intransitive. Of a boat or ship: to travel or operate as a ferry. rare.In quot. 1872 transitive with river as object.

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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass to and fro

ferry1630

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > serve as ferry over

ferry1872

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) vi. 631 Upon these waters doe ferry fiftie thousand Boats..to serve the use of the Citie.

1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land iv. 55 A steamer ferries the broad swift-running stream.

2004 J. Long Reckoning vii. 47 Small boats ferried back and forth, the far shore going dark.

c. transitive. To bring or take (a boat) across a river or other stretch of water; to make a river crossing or other short journey with (a boat). Chiefly with across, over. Frequently in passive.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > across a stretch of water

ferry1771

1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 92 The rotten canoe, that he had however contrived to ferry over.

1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxix. 217 He promised a napoleon to every boat which was ferried across.

1858 H. E. Schedel & G. Schedel Emancipation of Faith II. 179 Anubis was also the guardian of the celestial gates, probably as representing the Nile over which the boats were ferried.

1936 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. 2/1 Small boats were ferried through the [flooded] streets removing persons from precarious positions.

1970 A. Clifton-Taylor in N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (ed. 2) 289 Before the Fens were drained, the flat-bottomed boats could be ferried across the fenland meres into the Ouse.

1996 T. Palmer Amer. by Rivers (1998) x. 293 Seeking firm footing, I ferried the boat to the right side and into shallower water.

a. intransitive. To cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat, esp. a ferry; to take a ferry. Chiefly with over (also across, back).

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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > across > by ferry

ferrya1425

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 178 Crist seide to hem, Verie we over þe water.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail l. l. 176 In to here schipe forto take him, forto veryen ouer that lake.

1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes ii. f. 63^v They caryed Bots with them in Wagons, to ferrie ouer the ryuer.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C^v She sayling to Styx, thou ferriest ouer to Phlegeton.

1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome v. i, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1383 They that would goe to it, used to ferry over in small punts or whirries.

1700 S. Parker Homer in Nutshell i. 6 You'll ferry o'r, And at the Pallace-stairs be set a'shoar.

1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 358 When death's dark stream I ferry o'er.

1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 120 I walked and rode and ferried and sailed..day after day.

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. vi. 333 I intended to remain until the weather cleared before I ferried back.

1887 L. Oliphant Episodes 72 I ferried across it.

1918 R. G. Anderson Cross of Fire ii. 12 The sun was just coming up..when he ferried across the Hudson.

1971 J. T. Chen May Fourth Movement in Shanghai iv. 82 They ferried over to the suburban town of Pootung.

1997 S. R. Fischer Glyph-breaker vi. 133 Daily availing myself of the marvelous opportunity to ferry only twenty minutes across the lake to the research library.

†b. intransitive. figurative. With over. To pass over or omit something. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over > in speaking, writing

passa1425

missa1450

ferry1477

pretermit1542

silence1570

slip1607

reticence1833

to miss out1855

to skate over or round1928

1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 605 I may not wryght longe; wherfor I fery ouer all thyngys tyll I may awayte on yow my-selff.

5. transitive. To fly (an aircraft) from one place to another, esp. in order to deliver it to someone else. Cf. ferry n.¹ 5a.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > transport through the air [verb (transitive)] > transport regularly

ferry1918

1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter xviii. 286 Testing and ferrying airplanes from one part of the world to the other had come to be my lot.

1921 Flight 13 620/2 Both the Aircraft Disposal Company, and the Bristol people, are having difficulty in finding pilots to ferry these machines across to Spain.

1965 N.Y. Times 16 July 54/3 The four-member crew had ferried the plane from Oakland to Salinas, Calif., where 18 passengers had boarded.

2004 K. Donnelly Amer. Women Pilots World War II i. 12 The company ferried airplanes from the United States to Canada.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ferry
释义	ferryn.¹ Brit. /ˈfɛri/, U.S. /ˈfɛri/ Forms: Middle English feery (transmission error), Middle English feri- (in compounds), Middle English ffery, Middle English verye, Middle English–1500s ferye, Middle English–1600s ferri- (in compounds), Middle English–1600s fery, 1500s–1600s ferrie, 1500s–1600s ferrye, 1500s– ferry, 1600s ferrey, 1900s– fairy (regional); Scottish pre-1700 fairie, pre-1700 farie, pre-1700 fere, pre-1700 ferie, pre-1700 ferray, pre-1700 ferre, pre-1700 ferrey, pre-1700 ferrie, pre-1700 ferrye, pre-1700 fery, pre-1700 1700s– ferry. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly (i) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Probably partly (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ferry v. Etymology: Probably partly (i) < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic ferja ferry boat, Old Swedish færia ferry boat, river crossing (Swedish färja ), Old Danish færie ferry boat, river crossing (Danish færge , now chiefly in sense ‘ferry boat’), all suffixed derivatives < the Germanic verbs cited at ferry v.; compare the place names cited below), and partly (ii) < ferry v. Compare Middle Dutch vēre (feminine), vēr (neuter) river crossing, regular ferry service (Dutch veer (neuter), †veere (feminine), also (now regional) ferry boat), Middle Low German vēre (feminine) ferry boat, river crossing, regular ferry service, right to provide a regular ferry service, Middle High German ver , vere (feminine) ferry boat (German Fähre , also river crossing, regular ferry service). Compare also post-classical Latin feria (from 1283 in British sources; earlier with specific reference to the settlement of Ferrybridge (see below): 1086 as Fereia , a1139 as Feria , etc.; < English). Compare earlier ferrying n.Attested earlier in place names (all from Danelaw counties, and almost certainly reflecting the early Scandinavian word), including: Ferie, West Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now Ferrybridge), marking the river crossing of the Great North Road across the Aire (the ferry was replaced by a bridge at the end of the 12th cent.); Ferebi, East Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now North Ferriby) and Ferebi, Lincolnshire (1086; now South Ferriby), opposite each other on the Humber; Kinerdefere, Lincolnshire (1185; now Kinnard's Ferry); Stokeferie, Norfolk (1248; now Stoke Ferry); Blauncheferye, Fletton, Huntingdonshire (1279; now lost). Compare also early use in surnames, as John atte Ferye (1311), Gilbert atte Fery (1326). 1. A boat or ship used to carry passengers, vehicles, or goods across a river, relatively short sea crossing, etc., esp. as part of a regular service; = ferry boat n.Recorded earliest in ferryman n. (as a surname).car ferry, road ferry, train ferry, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry ferry1192 ferry boat1374 water-fare1610 transfer1883 cross-ferry1900 1192 in Publ. Pipe Roll Soc. (1926) II. 278 Robertus ferriman. 1290 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 (MED) [A boat called] Le ferye. a1450 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 141 By the whiche fery..puple were yn grete perill and meny perisshed. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R4^v Shee soone to hond Her ferry brought. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 53 Bring them I pray thee..to the common Ferrie which trades to Venice. View more context for this quotation 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Bac, a ferry. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3722/1 The French had sunk divers Ferries and other Boats in the River. 1775 N. W. Wraxall Cursory Remarks Tour N. Europe xvii. 367 The little town of Mewa, where I crossed the river in a ferry. 1853 A. S. Knight Diary 8 May in Trans. Oregon Pioneer Assoc. 1928 (1933) 40 There is no ferry here and the men will have to make one out of the tightest wagon-bed. 1899 R. W. Semon In Austral. Bush xviii. 529 We took our supper on board the ferry. 1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 147 (caption) Dover–Dunkirk train-ferry in Dover docks. The opening through which the trains run on to the ferry can be seen on the left. 1966 Motor Boating July 30 (caption) Two-week route includes travel by jet and prop planes, large ferries, small boats, [etc.]. 2013 E. Heller Life's Illusions ix. 84 He boarded the ferry and sailed to Rodbyhavn, a small town in Denmark. 2. A crossing over a river or other stretch of water which is served by a ferry boat. Also: a place at which a ferry boat departs or lands. Now somewhat rare. N.E.D. (1895) interpreted quot. a1530 as illustrating a more general sense ‘a passage or crossing’, but is interpreted as showing this sense by Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Ferry, Ferrie. The precise sense intended is uncertain; with the variant reading forret cf. ?1611 at forehead n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed ferry1286 passage?a1400 trajecta1552 crossing1632 trajection1637 pass1649 rack1659 crossing-place1763 river crossing1839 transit1852 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > place of ferry1286 plying place1626 ferry nab1852 ferrying1868 1286 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 11th Rep.: App. Pt. III: MSS Corporations Southampton & King's Lynn (1887) 239 in Parl. Papers (C. 5060–II) XLVII. 1 In passagio aque Lenne que vocatur ferye. 1360 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 [A ferry called] la verye [with dues for carriage from the market place to] la verye [aforesaid]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 156 Fery over a watyr. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 285 Besyd Landoris the ferrye our thai past. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. l. 6205 At the Ferry [a1500 Nero forret; a1550 Wemyss fery] off the Hill thai mete. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges iii. 28 They folowed him, & wanne y^e ferye of Iordane. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 25 There be 4..Places namid as ferys apon the Water of Lindis. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E3 The ferry where we were transported into the Ile of France. 1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 378 A sturgeon of 8 foot long was taken up at Clifton ferry. 1749 Apol. Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 125 Passing over this Ferry they came into Rhode Island. 1775 H. P. Wyndham Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire & Wales 42 Just above the ferry is the seat of Mr. Vernon. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. xvi. 95 We blow..when we come nigh the taverns..or post offices, or ferries. a1854 H. Cockburn Memorials of his Time (1856) vi. 341 Nothing but wretched pierless ferries, let to poor cottars, who rowed or hauled or pushed a crazy boat across. 1938 J. Betjeman Oxf. Univ. Chest v. 97 At the ferry you board a punt or canoe..and paddle down the stream of the Cherwell. 1992 E. Coffman Somewhere along Way iii. 65 The man who waits at the ferry will get across sometime. 3. a. A service carrying passengers, goods, etc., across a stretch of water by boat; a regular ferry service.Recorded earliest in ferry right n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying ferry1393 ferriagec1450 ferrying1641 1393 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 101 (MED) [A messuage in Bishops Lenne with a] ferieright. 1394 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 89 (MED) [The profits of a] ferye [in Conweye in Wales]. 1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 77^v Vnto the whiche house she gaue the ouersight & profyt of the same ferry. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 170 Over against Newberrie lyes the Town of Salisbury, where a constant Ferry is kept. 1700 3rd Pt. Mod. Rep. 294 The Defendant had petitioned the king to destroy the Ferry. 1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia x. 193 Not to interfere with the ferry of Poscharewaz. 1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. i. 20 A ferry was established where London Bridge now stands. 1912 Financial Times 20 Feb. 6/5 The traffic is being diverted to the old routes used before the ferry was inaugurated. 1946 Times 26 Sept. 2/3 Continuance of the ferry service by the company would be difficult or impossible... It would be immoral that a Minister of the Crown should make an Order thus destroying a ferry created by the Crown. 2007 P. Skaja-Bell & C. Wilson Otsego i. 18 John McDonald established a ferry at the Otsego town site in 1855. b. Law. The right to provide a service of this type, and to charge a fee for its use; = right of ferry n. at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of taking toll or taxes > specific thirl-multure1423 multure meal1547 multure1565–6 murage1636 ferrya1638 a1638 R. Brownlow Rep. Diverse Cases: 2nd Pt. (1651) 303 He agreed that if the King grant a Ferrey, and that every passenger shall pay for his passage four pence, this is good. 1685 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 388/2 Ferry, is a liberty by prescription, or the Kings Grant, to have a Boat for passage upon a great Stream for Cariage of horses and men for reasonable toll. a1701 B. Shower Reports (1708) I. 257 If a Ferry were granted at this Day, he that accepts such Grant, is bound to keep a Boat for the Publick Good. 1843 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer X. 161 The defendants..were possessed of a certain ferry across..the River Mersey. 1862 Law Reports XXXI. Common Pl. 247 The plaintiffs are the lessees of an ancient ferry. 1912 Southwestern Reporter 140 201/2 When an applicant applies for a ferry he must state in his notice that he is the owner of the land at the point where the ferry is to be established. 2006 A. Cooper Bridges, Law & Power Medieval Eng. iv. 133 Edward II granted the ferry at Sandwich to the mayor and bailiffs of the town; it was worth 40s a year. 4. Chiefly humorous or ironic. A fast or regular long-distance ocean crossing by ship. Chiefly in Atlantic ferry. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > jocularly of a long passage ferry1839 1839 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 21 Sept. The communication between this country and America is performed with so much rapidity, and in so short a time, by steamers, that it has been designated the Atlantic Ferry. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 578/2 The ‘Atlantic ferry’ will take you across in a little more than a week. 1907 Daily Chron. 11 June 10/4 Nearly all the Australian States are now offering assisted passages to selected immigrants... Why should not the Imperial Government take a hand in this, and in certain cases contribute the other £6, and thus realise the ‘free ferry’? 1930 C. E. Lee (title) The Blue Riband: the romance of the Atlantic ferry. 2003 D. A. Butler Age of Cunard iii. 68 The North Atlantic run..was becoming known as the Atlantic Ferry. 5. a. An aircraft or air service for transporting passengers or goods, esp. on a relatively short, regular route. Also: a service for delivering aircraft to where they are required by flying; an aircraft flown as part of such a service. Cf. ferry v. 5, air ferry n. at air n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > regular ferry1908 ferrying2004 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers liner1905 tramp1905 airliner1908 taxi1909 taxi plane1909 air ferry1916 air freighter1919 passenger plane1919 air taxi1920 freighter1920 flying boxcar1932 ferry1939 shuttle plane1944 day coach1945 feeder liner1946 charter1959 night coach1959 1908 Times 21 Dec. 6/2 An invading army of 100,000 men may be transported by a kind of aerial ferry of 5,000 aeroplanes. 1939 Flight 9 Nov. 373/1 The chances that an enemy machine might masquerade as a ferry are very small. 1963 Pop. Sci. June 78/2 It has become a 47-passenger aerial ferry for California's Avalon Air Transport, and daily hops a 28-mile sliver of the Pacific. 1992 J. G. Martin & J. M. Thies China Airlift: Hump III. 246/1 Entered Ferry Command at Memphis.., flew domestic and foreign ferries out of that base. b. Science Fiction and Astronautics. A spacecraft used, esp. repeatedly, to transport passengers and cargo over a relatively short distance, as between an orbiting craft and a planet's surface. In early use more fully ferry rocket. Cf. shuttle n.¹ 8c. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > module or capsule landing craft1940 ferry1951 capsule1954 space capsule1954 module1961 service module1961 Lem1962 moonbug1963 1951 A. C. Clarke Exploration of Space 78 At the end of these manœuvres, which would occupy only a few hours, it would be back in a stable, circular orbit waiting to be refuelled and serviced, and the crew could be taken down to Earth by one of the winged ‘ferry’ rockets. 1952 Space Sci. Fiction Sept. 66/2 It was easy, too, to enter the planet Grekh; you just boarded an interworld ferry from either of the two sister-planets. 1960 F. Gaynor Dict. Aerospace 90 Ferry rocket, the final step of the planned piloted space vehicle, designed for transporting personnel between earth and the terminal orbit. 1969 Times 3 June Suppl. p. iii/8 The two-stage module—the disposable landing ferry that takes the astronauts from their circling space~craft to the lunar surface—is at the heart of the American plans to land two men on the moon. 1990 Flight Internat. 25 July 6/1 Cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Alexander Balandin fixed two..panels back on to the side of the descent capsule of their Soyuz TM9 ferry. 2012 B. W. Aldiss Finches of Mars xvii. 92 The ferry carried the new exiles from Armstrong up to the Confu, waiting in orbit. Phrases P1. Used in figurative expressions alluding to death, as to take the ferry, etc., with reference to the boat in which Charon transported the spirits of the dead to the underworld in classical mythology, or to the passage made by this boat. Cf. Charon n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) Old Oliver's gon to the dogs, Oh! No I do mistake, He's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is cal'd the Stygian Lake. 1723 J. Swift Epit. Judge Boat 24 Our Boat is now sail'd to the Stygian Ferry, There to supply old Charon's leaky Wherry. a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 24 From hence then take thy ferry o'er to hell! 1869 W. James in Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 1 People who are comfortably in possession of a season-ticket over the Stygian ferry. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vi. 266 What are you going to do with your pictures when you take the ferry? Leave them to the nation? P2. right of ferry n. the right to provide a ferry service and to charge a fee for its use; = sense 3b; cf. ferry right n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > right of ferrying right of ferry1761 1761 Information for James Earl of Moray 11 The Right of Ferry, or Passage, over this Public River. 1774 London Chron. 13 Sept. 264/2 A right of ferry claimed by the latter over the river Mena on the great road between Chester and Holyhead. 1865 Amer. Law Reg. 13 515 It is sometimes asserted that there is a right of ferry which at common law is appendant or appurtenant to riparian ownership upon navigable fresh-water rivers. 1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 June 3 Compulsory acquisition of the ‘right of ferry’ may require a private Act of Parliament to be promoted by the regional council. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) In senses 1 and 3a, as ferry passenger, ferry place, ferry way, ferry wharf, etc. See also ferry boat n. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 156 Fery place. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1692/2 The B[ishop]..cryed to a couple of fery boyes, to ron and holde him, that last ranne away. 1694 G. Meriton Guide Surveyors xiv. 138 All other Profits..are to be levied, recovered and received by the Ferry-Warden. 1755 Bill Bridge between Sandwich & Stonore 9 The present Ferry-way or Passage over the said Water or Haven, is now..constantly rated and assessed by the Churchwardens. 1845 Liverpool Mercury 23 May 175/2 The public had got a wrong impression as to the objection to publishing the ferry receipts. 1864 W. Miller Jottings Kent 263 The staff of officers comprised a ferry warden, constable, two ferrymen, and a ferry keeper. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxviii. 39 The Lethean ferry-boatload. 1951 Motor Boating Apr. 50 Docks along the waterfront, near the ferry wharves. 1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 11/1 One drives about five miles from the ferry slip..and down a steep windy road to a plateau above the beach. 2006 Scots Mag. June 589/1 Ferry passengers are enjoying an hour and a half ashore. (b) In sense 5a, as ferry flight, ferry plane, etc. ΚΠ 1917 Flying 28 Nov. 296/1 Should you chance to live in eastern or south eastern counties you may see them going over..flown by ferry pilots. 1942 Times Weekly 9 Sept. 9/1 Filling petrol tanks of United States ferry planes at airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts. 1965 Los Angeles Times 19 May i. 16/1 (heading) Pilot apparently wandered over border by mistake during routine ferry mission. 2009 W. Langewiesche Fly by Wire vi. 133 A crew departing on a ferry flight to Senegal in an empty Lufthansa Boeing 707. b. ferry hire n. ΚΠ 1228 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Feri(e Ad recipiendum de eis ferihyre. 1808 R. Drummond Illustr. Grammatical Parts Guzerattee, Mahratta & Eng. Gloss. at Ootaroo The interrogatory adage—‘Do they demand ferry hire of the drowned.’ 1917 S. P. Sherman On Contemp. Lit. 182 Lucian set the infernal gods to quarreling over the ferry hire in Hades. 2010 West Briton (Nexis) 4 Feb. 30 There is a £10 registration fee to cover event expenses such as ferry hire, parking and advertising. ferry service n. ΚΠ 1839 Bristol Mercury 14 Sept. I am a boatman in the ferry service, and have been so for 8 years. 1907 Pop. Mech. Oct. 1146/2 During the forty years of regular ferry service across San Francisco Bay..300,000,000 passengers have been carried. 2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 56/3 An inexpensive weekly ferry service from Kigoma port. ferry terminal n. ΚΠ 1891 Logansport (Indiana) Chron. 26 Dec. Walter Katte, chief engineer of the New York Central railroad, has made plans for a new ferry terminal for the West Shore. 1916 P. P. Whitham Planning Alaskan Ports 22 This is probably the largest ferry terminal in the world. 2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 152 I walked along the main road to the ferry terminal. C2. ferry bridge n. †(a) (in Bermuda) a bridge used to cross to a place at which ferries arrive and depart (obsolete); †(b) a means of transporting a railway train across a river or other stretch of water, consisting of a boat with a raised deck designed to support the train (obsolete); (c) a bridge used to board or disembark from a ferry. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry > types of toni1582 horse-boat1591 bac1676 ferry bridge1696 rope-ferry1755 pont1776 ferry flat1805 steam-ferry1812 steam ferry-boat1812 night boat1839 bar-boat1857 train ferry-boat1867 car ferry1884 grind1889 swinging-bridge1892 train ferry1900 night ferry1948 SeaCat1954 walla-walla1957 1696 Minutes Council Governor of Bermuda in Bermuda Hist. Q. (1946) 3 iii. 125 Ordered that Joseph Cox Do according to a late order of the second of March last take care that the ferry Bridges be forthwith wholly repaired and made good And that he bee allowed 4s 4d p day for the same. 1788 Bermuda: Act further for supplying Deficiency of Fund 27 To Bridger Goodrich, Esquire, to be applied to the Completion of the Ferry Bridges, Ninety Pounds. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 837/2 Ferry-bridge, a form of ferry-boat in which the railway-train moves on to the elevated deck, is transported across the water and then lands upon the other side. 1884 Biddeford (Maine) Jrnl. 6 Aug. 1/4 In consequence of the destruction of the ferry bridges and buildings the excursions of the steamer Stockton to West Point will be discontinued until further notice. 1996 A. G. Adams Hudson River Guidebk. (ed. 2) ii. 84/2 (caption) Remains of the ferry bridges are seen in the foreground. ferry craft n. vessels which serve as ferries; (as a count noun) a vessel of this kind. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 612 For fery craft na fraucht he thocht to crawe. 1844 Acts State of Louisiana (2nd Session 16th Legislature) 18 To keep in good order good and sufficient ferry crafts. 1922 National Geographic Mag. Nov. 514/2 Dwarfed replicas of British Channel packet-boats ply as ferry craft between Lisbon and this miniature Brooklyn. 2012 L. Yun & A. Bliault High Performance Marine Vessels viii. 305 Almost one third of the world inventory of fast ferry craft operate in this region. ferry flat n. U.S. (now chiefly historical) a flatboat (flat-boat n. 2) used as a ferry. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of sedge-boat1336 shout1395 scout1419 pink1471 punt-boatc1500 palander1524 pram1531 punt1556 bark1598 sword-pink1614 pont1631 schuit1666 pontoon1681 bateau1711 battoe1711 flight1769 scow1780 keel-boat1786 ferry flat1805 ark1809 panga1811 mackinaw boat1812 mudboat1824 pinkie1840 mackinaw1842 sharpie1860 sculling float1874 pass-boat1875 sled1884 scow sloop1885 sharp1891 johnboat1894 ballahoo1902 pram1929 goelette1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry > types of toni1582 horse-boat1591 bac1676 ferry bridge1696 rope-ferry1755 pont1776 ferry flat1805 steam-ferry1812 steam ferry-boat1812 night boat1839 bar-boat1857 train ferry-boat1867 car ferry1884 grind1889 swinging-bridge1892 train ferry1900 night ferry1948 SeaCat1954 walla-walla1957 1805 Evening Fire-side 9 Mar. 104/3 No less than..ten ferry flats, between sixty and eighty canoes, and a house, were seen descending the river among the ice. 1884 Harper's Mag. June 124/2 Of smaller vessels there were ‘covered sleds’, ‘ferry flats’, and ‘Alleghany skiffs’. 2010 M. J. Smith Tinclads in Civil War v. 121 After the Lexington had passed, a ferry flat attempted to run out of a hidden creek and make it across the river. ferry house n. the residence of a ferryman; (also) a building providing shelter to passengers awaiting transport by ferry. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > of people in specific employment almonry1440 ferry house1595 prefecture1802 station house1805 pilothouse1812 lodging1826 schoolhouse1842 wardenry1859 adviserate1938 1595 G. Owen Descr. Mylford Havon in Descr. Penbrokeshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. No. 1) (1897) 551 Above King rode is the Ferry where the Comon passage is kepte right against the ferry house. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Draining Fens liv. 386/2 To make Ferryes and Ferrey houses where need is. 1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 3 Oct. in Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 31 So was Obliged to dine with an ill natured Scold at the ferry house who gave us Potatoes & Tatogue with an intolerable dirty Cloth. 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. lx. 329 A ferryhouse stretches out like a sickle in the blue sea. 1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xxiii. 281 The little ferry that shunts back and forth between Bowness and the old ferry house on the opposite shore. † ferry-loop n. Obsolete rare the route taken by a ferry. N.E.D. (1895) regarded quot. 1742 as evidence for a compound ferry-look, based on the reading in the 1769 edition of the text. ΚΠ 1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. iii. 146 [The keeper of this ferry has the right] to dredge for Oysters within the Compass of his Ferry-loop [1762, 1769 Ferry-look], which extends..sixty Fathoms on each Side of the Castle. ferry-louper n. [ < ferry n.¹ + Scots louper wanderer, vagabond (16th cent. in Older Scots; < loup v. + -er suffix¹)] Orkney a person who is not a native of Orkney; an incomer or visitor from the mainland. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on island > one who has crossed from mainland to Orkneys ferry-louper1822 1822 A. Peterkin Notes Orkney & Zetland i. ii. 21 A Ferry Louper, (the name by which all persons not natives of Orkney are designated by the vulgar). 1902 Celtic Monthly Feb. 104/2 The would-be ‘ferry louper’ must content himself with the shelter of the ruined inn. 2005 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 14 He..explained that the thing most Orcadians would not wear was a ferry-louper coming into their patch. ferry master n. originally U.S. a person in charge of a ferry; (also) a person who collects the tolls or fares for a ferry service. ΚΠ 1810 Public Laws State N.Y., 33rd Session 38 The ferry masters shall constantly keep in their employ not less than two men to row in every barge. 1886 Central Reporter 3 53/1 His successor in the office of ferrymaster returned to the Company..much more toll-money than Moore did for the corresponding period of the preceding year. 1902 Secret Service 25 Apr. 31/1 The permit for the removal of the ‘corpse’ was given to the ferry master by the inspector. 2010 R. Easton Naked in Eden 323 All the ferry masters who operated the Daintree River Ferry were fascinating characters whom I greatly admired. ferry nab n. [ < ferry n.¹ + nab n.¹] English regional (north-western) a promontory from which a ferry operates; cf. nab n.¹ 1.Apparently only attested in the place name Ferry Nab, on the eastern shore of Windermere, Cumbria. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > place of ferry1286 plying place1626 ferry nab1852 ferrying1868 1852 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Dec. 279 In weathering the Ferry Nab the Victoria touched the ground. 1991 Times 22 June 17/4 The main public launch point at Ferry Nab, which can manage only about 210 boats a day. ferry operator n. (a) a person who or company which runs a ferry service; (b) a person who pilots, or is in charge of, a ferry. ΚΠ 1894 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 16 July Luther C. Challiss came to Atchison in 1855 from Booneville, Mo... He remained here continuously until 1861, as merchant, banker, ferry operator, and real estate operator. 1912 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 31 Oct. 1/5 The ferry operator, Klein, observed the danger, but it was too late to check the speed of the ferry boat, which was struck broadside by the craft. 1941 Life 17 Nov. 51/1 She is head of the great, heterogeneous house of Vanderbilt which was founded by the original wily Commodore, ferry operator and owner of the New York Central Railroad. 1996 Marine Engineers Rev. Oct. 25 A growing number of traditional ferry operators serving key routes in UK, Baltic, Mediterranean, Asian and American arenas are complementing or replacing conventional tonnage with large high speed passenger/vehicle vessels. 2006 New York Sun (Nexis) 9 Jan. 3 More than two years after a Staten Island Ferry crashed when its pilot passed out at the helm, a federal judge in Brooklyn is expected to sentence the ferry operator and his supervisor today. ferry pole n. a long pole used to propel a small ferry boat. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 23 There are..A ferry-poal, and frogs in Stygian waves. 1851 Knickerbocker Mar. 213 Seizing his ferry-pole, he sprang into a long, low, slimy boat. 2002 M. Cadnum Forbidden Forest i. 7 John pulled the ferry pole from the current and plunged it deep again. † ferry-railway n. Obsolete a means of transporting a railway train across a river or other stretch of water, consisting of a section of underwater track with an elevated carriage designed to support the train. ΚΠ 1860 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 7 Dec. At the ferry-way the water was fifteen feet higher than the ordinary level, being on the ninth stair of the ferry railway. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 837/2 Ferry-railway, one whose track is on the bottom of the water-course and whose carriage has an elevated deck which supports the train. ferry right n. (also ferry rights) Law (now chiefly historical) the right to provide a ferry service and to charge a fee for its use; cf. sense 3b. ΚΠ 1393Ferieright [see sense 3a]. 1501 Will of Adam Outlawe in C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) IV. 621 (modernized text) I bequeath to him a tenement and 2 ferry-rights. 1819 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 May They have sold the said ferries and ferry-rights. 1915 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 63 732 The courts are not going to allow the owners of ancient ferry rights to clog the wheels of progressive transportation. 2011 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 19 July 26 Edward III granted them and their successors ferry rights on the Mersey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † ferryn.² Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: sorré n.; caudle ferry n. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a compositorial error for, or misreading of, sorré n. (compare forms at that entry); or perhaps shortened < caudle ferry n. Cookery. Obsolete. rare. Apparently: some kind of sauce. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > other sauces galantine1304 civya1325 egerdouce1381 gravy?c1390 camelinea1425 chawdronc1440 saffron sauce?a1505 sibber-sauce1556 ferry?1570 oxoleum1574 slabber-sauce1574 saupiquet1656 slapsauce1708 brown sauce1723 bread sauce1727 custard1747 bechamel1789 caper-sauce1791 tomato sauce1804 custard cream1805 allemande1806 sambal1815 Reading sauce1816 Harvey's Sauce1818 velouté sauce1830 suprême sauce1833 parsley sauce1836 agrodolce1838 Worcestershire sauce1843 espagnole1845 pestoa1848 cheese sauce1854 nam prik1857 Worcester sauce1863 Béarnaise sauce1868 Béarnaise1877 Yorkshire Relish1877 sauce mousseline1892 velvet sauce1893 gribiche1897 mornay sauce1900 sugo1906 sofrito1913 chile con queso1916 foo yung1917 marinara1932 pistou1951 hoisin1957 salsa verde1957 pico de gallo1958 sriracha1959 carbonara1962 amatriciana1963 arrabbiata1963 ponzu1966 puttanesca1971 chermoula1974 tikka masala1975 mojo1983 queso1989 ?1570 Intronizatio Wilhelmi Warham Carpe in ferry [perh. read sorry]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). ferryv. Brit. /ˈfɛri/, U.S. /ˈfɛri/ Forms: Old English færigan, Old English fergan, Old English fergean, Old English ferian, Old English ferigan, Old English ferigean, Old English fyrigan (rare), late Old English ferigen, early Middle English uere (south-west midlands), early Middle English uerie (south-west midlands), Middle English fere, Middle English ferie, Middle English verie (east midlands), Middle English very (south-eastern), Middle English verye (southern), Middle English–1500s fery, Middle English–1600s fery, 1500s ferrye, 1500s ferye, 1500s ferynge (present participle), 1500s phery, 1500s–1600s ferrie, 1500s– ferry, 1600s ferring (present participle); Scottish pre-1700 ferre, pre-1700 fery, pre-1700 1700s– ferry. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon ferian to sail, to travel (Middle Low German vēren to cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat), Old High German ferien , ferren to cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat, to convey or transport (people or goods) by ferry boat, to sail, navigate, or direct the course of (a vessel) (Middle High German vern to travel by boat, German (now regional: Baden, Switzerland) fähren to row), Old Icelandic ferja to transport (a person or thing), to convey or transport (people or goods) by ferry boat, Gothic farjan to travel, (specifically) to travel by boat, all causative formations < the Germanic base of fare v.¹ The later semantic development is probably influenced by ferry n.¹ Compare fere v.¹In Old English the prefixed form geferian (compare y- prefix) is also attested; compare also ætferian to take or carry away (at- prefix²), aferian to take away, remove (compare a- prefix¹), forferian to cause to die (compare for- prefix¹), oferferian to carry over, transfer, remove (compare over- prefix), offerian to carry off (compare of- prefix), oþferian to take away, carry off (compare oth prep.), tōferian to remove, get rid of, to pull apart, to disperse (compare to- prefix²), wiþferian to rescue (compare with- prefix). †I. Senses relating to the general action of conveying or transporting. 1. a. transitive. To carry, convey, or transport from one place to another. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] haveeOE ferryOE weighOE bearOE take?a1160 weve13.. carry1348 passa1350 tow1391 geta1393 convey1393 winc1400 transport1483 set1487 convoy1500 traduce1535 port1566 repair1612 vehiculate1628 transmute1683 transplant1769 gallant1806 transit1859 inveigh1878 waltz1884 sashay1928 conduct- OE Beowulf (2008) 333 Hwanon ferigeað ge fætte scyldas? OE Ælfric Homily: De Duodecim Abusivis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 300 On manegum wisum man mæg wyrcan ælmyssan:..gif man seocne geneosað..oððe gyf he forðfarene ferað [a1225 Lamb. fereð] to byrgene. OE Seasons for Fasting (transcript of damaged MS) 148 Hine fyren scryd..on weg ferede on neorxnawong. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se biscop of Lincolne..wearð þa sone dead, & man ferode hine to Lincolne mid micel wurðscipe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5266 He uerde forð in sæ, uereden hine vðen. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 123 Þe fend him deriiþ, And is soul to helle he feriiþ. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1790 The kyng..watz kaȝt bi þe heles, Feryed out bi þe fete. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L7 We..ferrie it to the deuil. b. transitive (reflexive) and intransitive. To travel; to go. Obsolete.Only in Old English.In quots. OE², OE³ (i.e. in apparent intransitive use) perhaps showing a scribal error for a form of fere v.¹ 1. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 82 Ic wolde ðine ðenunge sylf nu gearcian, gif ic me mid feðunge ferian mihte. OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 179 Þæt min sawul to ðe siðian mote on þin geweald,..mid friþe ferian. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxvii. 8 Þonne god..geond westena wide ferað. II. Senses relating to the action of conveying or transporting over water, and extended uses. 2. a. transitive. To convey or transport (people, goods, etc.) over water; (in later use) spec. to convey by ferry boat. Frequently with across, over. Also occasionally intransitive.From the 15th cent. chiefly with reference to short or regular journeys across a river or other stretch of water. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > ferry ferryOE society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > ferry ferryOE transfrete1594 transwaft1635 OE Riddle 14 7 Hwilum wycg byreþ mec ofer mearce, hwilum merehengest fereð ofer flodas frætwum beorhtne. OE Andreas (1932) 293 We ðe estlice mid us willað ferigan freolice ofer fisces bæð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14014 Com þer an fisc liðe and fereden me to londe. c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 14 (MED) Sumtyme fro þat hill to rome folk wer feried with botis. 1587 F. James in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 199 For ferrienge oure horses..from Lambeth..6d. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 21 In this case without ferrying ouer the horse there was nothing due vnto the bargeman. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. xi. 110 Charon is tyr'd, with ferring soules to hell. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3722/2 Before night almost half of them were ferried over. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 38 They themselves once ferried o'er the wave..are emancipate and loosed. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iii. 45 A girl who had ferried me over the Severn. 1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xiii. 284 The owner of a ferry..ferries only when he chooses. 1874 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 240 He was ferried to the French bank. 1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door v. 122 A boatman ferried me out to the yacht. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Nov. 1/7 Small ships..for ferrying cargoes. 2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec. m6/2 Guests are taxied to a dock, then ferried on a small boat across the emerald shallows. b. transitive. In extended use, without reference to boats or water: to convey (people, goods, etc.) from one place to another, esp. by means of short or regular journeys. Frequently with prepositions or adverbs, as about, around.The meaning of this sense overlaps with sense 1a, but there is no evidence of historical continuity between the two senses. ΚΠ 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Ferrier,..one who ferries or conveys the rock salt from the workings to the shaft. 1905 Collier's 25 Nov. 20/1 You and I..are ferried about in an automobile..and fancy it exhilarating. 1967 Observer 16 July 1/6 Twenty holidaymakers injured in a derailed train..were ferried to hospital by an RAF helicopter. 1970 H. Waugh Finish me Off (1971) 163 Then we warn the doormen and the super on her building that it wouldn't look good for them to ferry customers to her apartment. 1991 Washington Post Mag. 26 May 27/1 A tangled web of clunky conveyor belts, roller tracks and dumbwaiters that ferries books back and forth from building to building. 2012 Daily Tel. 25 May 20/2 Hundreds of purple London-style cabs..have been commissioned to ferry the guests around town. 3. †a. transitive. To sail, navigate, or direct the course of (a vessel). Obsolete.Only in Old English. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (2009) xxvi. 26 Aulixes..let him behindan hyrnde ciolas nigon and hundnigontig, nænigne þonan merehengesta ma þonne ænne ferede on fifelstream, famigbordon ðriereðre ceol. OE Cynewulf Crist II 853 Nu is þon gelicost swa we on laguflode ofer cald wæter ceolum liðan geond sidne sæ, sundhengestum, flodwudu fergen. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1009 Her on þissum geare wurdon þa scypo gearwe þe we ær ymbe spræcon..& hi man ða ealle togædere ferode to Sandwic. b. intransitive. Of a boat or ship: to travel or operate as a ferry. rare.In quot. 1872 transitive with river as object. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass to and fro ferry1630 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > serve as ferry over ferry1872 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) vi. 631 Upon these waters doe ferry fiftie thousand Boats..to serve the use of the Citie. 1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land iv. 55 A steamer ferries the broad swift-running stream. 2004 J. Long Reckoning vii. 47 Small boats ferried back and forth, the far shore going dark. c. transitive. To bring or take (a boat) across a river or other stretch of water; to make a river crossing or other short journey with (a boat). Chiefly with across, over. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > across a stretch of water ferry1771 1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 92 The rotten canoe, that he had however contrived to ferry over. 1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxix. 217 He promised a napoleon to every boat which was ferried across. 1858 H. E. Schedel & G. Schedel Emancipation of Faith II. 179 Anubis was also the guardian of the celestial gates, probably as representing the Nile over which the boats were ferried. 1936 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. 2/1 Small boats were ferried through the [flooded] streets removing persons from precarious positions. 1970 A. Clifton-Taylor in N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (ed. 2) 289 Before the Fens were drained, the flat-bottomed boats could be ferried across the fenland meres into the Ouse. 1996 T. Palmer Amer. by Rivers (1998) x. 293 Seeking firm footing, I ferried the boat to the right side and into shallower water. 4. a. intransitive. To cross a river or other stretch of water by means of a boat, esp. a ferry; to take a ferry. Chiefly with over (also across, back). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > across > by ferry ferrya1425 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 178 Crist seide to hem, Verie we over þe water. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail l. l. 176 In to here schipe forto take him, forto veryen ouer that lake. 1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes ii. f. 63^v They caryed Bots with them in Wagons, to ferrie ouer the ryuer. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C^v She sayling to Styx, thou ferriest ouer to Phlegeton. 1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome v. i, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1383 They that would goe to it, used to ferry over in small punts or whirries. 1700 S. Parker Homer in Nutshell i. 6 You'll ferry o'r, And at the Pallace-stairs be set a'shoar. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 358 When death's dark stream I ferry o'er. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 120 I walked and rode and ferried and sailed..day after day. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. vi. 333 I intended to remain until the weather cleared before I ferried back. 1887 L. Oliphant Episodes 72 I ferried across it. 1918 R. G. Anderson Cross of Fire ii. 12 The sun was just coming up..when he ferried across the Hudson. 1971 J. T. Chen May Fourth Movement in Shanghai iv. 82 They ferried over to the suburban town of Pootung. 1997 S. R. Fischer Glyph-breaker vi. 133 Daily availing myself of the marvelous opportunity to ferry only twenty minutes across the lake to the research library. †b. intransitive. figurative. With over. To pass over or omit something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over > in speaking, writing passa1425 missa1450 ferry1477 pretermit1542 silence1570 slip1607 reticence1833 to miss out1855 to skate over or round1928 1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 605 I may not wryght longe; wherfor I fery ouer all thyngys tyll I may awayte on yow my-selff. 5. transitive. To fly (an aircraft) from one place to another, esp. in order to deliver it to someone else. Cf. ferry n.¹ 5a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > transport through the air [verb (transitive)] > transport regularly ferry1918 1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter xviii. 286 Testing and ferrying airplanes from one part of the world to the other had come to be my lot. 1921 Flight 13 620/2 Both the Aircraft Disposal Company, and the Bristol people, are having difficulty in finding pilots to ferry these machines across to Spain. 1965 N.Y. Times 16 July 54/3 The four-member crew had ferried the plane from Oakland to Salinas, Calif., where 18 passengers had boarded. 2004 K. Donnelly Amer. Women Pilots World War II i. 12 The company ferried airplanes from the United States to Canada. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1192n.²?1570v.eOE
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