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- noun Plural form of
ferryboat .
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Examples
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The prime minister said seven planes were ready to leave and two ferryboats escorted by a Turkish frigate, were about to arrive in Libya.
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"First boat I was ever in, except ferryboats," Saxon laughed.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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Every day, waves of visitors arrive to Burano by ferryboats.
Awakening the Sleepy Island of Burano Alessia Pirolo 2011
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The idea was that the inside of ferryboats and spacecrafts look more or less the same: a closed world with no exit.
Ballardian » 'Like Alice in Wonderland': Solveig Nordlund on J.G. Ballard 2008
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Meanwhile, General Meade had become assured of the same thing, and as he was now growing anxious about the fate of Wilson's division -- which, during my absence, had been sent out to break the enemy's communications south of Petersburg, by destroying the Southside and Danville railroads -- he sent ferryboats to cross me over the James.
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GIVENS: Yes, we were actually able to take a vacation this summer and take Scooter up to Seattle and go on the ferryboats, which we would have never been able to do without Madison.
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He watched a handful of small ferryboats, their lanterns reflected in the black water, pick their way precariously through the currents from Bankside.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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He watched a handful of small ferryboats, their lanterns reflected in the black water, pick their way precariously through the currents from Bankside.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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He watched a handful of small ferryboats, their lanterns reflected in the black water, pick their way precariously through the currents from Bankside.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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And sloughing the beliefs ingrained since childhood, I bared my soul about the clarinets, the scent of honeysuckle and fried seafood, and the honk of the ferryboats -- how they nearly drove me mad until my new women friends made me feel a part of this "family."
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