ferry

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To transport (people, vehicles, or goods) by boat across a body of water.
• intransitive verb To cross (a body of water) by a ferry.
• intransitive verb To deliver (a vehicle, especially an aircraft) under its own power to its eventual user.
• intransitive verb To transport (people or goods) by vehicle, especially by aircraft.
• intransitive verb To cross a body of water on or as if on a ferry.
• noun A ferryboat.
• noun A place where passengers or goods are transported across a body of water, such as a river or bay, by a ferryboat.
• noun A franchise or legal right to operate a ferrying service for a fee.
• noun A service and route for delivering an aircraft under its own power to its eventual user.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A boat or raft in which passengers and goods are conveyed over a river or other contracted body of water; a wherry.
• noun The place or passage where boats pass over water to convey passengers and goods.
• noun A provision for the regular conveyance by boat or raft of passengers and goods across a river or other body of water between opposite shores: as, to establish a ferry; also, the legal right to maintain such a conveyance, and to charge reasonable toll for the service.
• To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
• To pass over water in a boat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
• transitive verb To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
• transitive verb To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a vehicle.
• noun A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
• noun A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
• noun A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
• noun a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.
• noun See under Railway.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
• noun A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
• noun The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
• verb transitive To carry; transport; convey.
• verb transitive To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
• verb transitive To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
• verb intransitive To pass over water in a boat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb travel by ferry
• noun a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
• noun transport by boat or aircraft
• verb transport from one place to another
• verb transport by ferry