transcription, транскрипция: [ feri ]
( ferries, ferrying, ferried)
1.
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers and sometimes also vehicles, usually across rivers or short stretches of sea.
They had recrossed the River Gambia by ferry.
N-COUNT : also by N
2.
If a vehicle ferries people or goods, it transports them, usually by means of regular journeys between the same two places.
Every day, a plane arrives to ferry guests to and from Bird Island Lodge...
It was still dark when five coaches started to ferry the miners the 140 miles from the Silverhill colliery...
A helicopter ferried in more soldiers to help in the search.
= transport
VERB : V n prep / adv , V n amount , V n with adv , also V n