ferry

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Nautical To transport (people, vehicles, or goods) by boat across a body of water.
2. v. Nautical To cross (a body of water) by a ferry.
3. v. To deliver (a vehicle, especially an aircraft) under its own power to its eventual user.
4. v. To transport (people or goods) by vehicle, especially by aircraft.
5. v. To cross a body of water on or as if on a ferry.
6. n. Nautical A ferryboat.
7. n. Nautical A place where passengers or goods are transported across a body of water, such as a river or bay, by a ferryboat.
8. n. A franchise or legal right to operate a ferrying service for a fee.
9. n. A service and route for delivering an aircraft under its own power to its eventual user.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. 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.
2. To pass over water in a boat.
3. n. A boat or raft in which passengers and goods are conveyed over a river or other contracted body of water; a wherry.
4. n. The place or passage where boats pass over water to convey passengers and goods.
5. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
2. n. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
3. n. The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
4. v. transitive To carry; transport; convey.
5. v. transitive To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
6. v. 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.
7. v. intransitive To pass over water in a boat.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
2. v. To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a vehicle.
3. v. To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
4. n. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
5. n. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
6. n. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. travel by ferry
2. n. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule
3. n. transport by boat or aircraft
4. v. transport from one place to another
5. v. transport by ferry