fer·ry·boat

[fer-ee-boht]
noun
a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English feryboot. See ferry, boat

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ferryboat

noun
a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry
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Ferryboat is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The joy of a ferryboat ride in a big city is in the contrast it offers.
The pressure of the current against the pontoons pushes the ferryboat across the river in the direction the pontoons point.
To get here, you have to take a ferryboat, provided by the restaurant.
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