ferryboat

• ferry-boat, ferry boat

From ferry +‎ boat.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹiˌboʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹiˌbəʊt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: fer‧ry‧boat

ferryboat (plural ferryboats)

1. (nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
   • 1893, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, The Federal reporter, volume 54, page 206:

     He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away

   • 1940, LIFE, Sep 2, 1940, page 59:

     The ferryboat "Argentina" rides toward Golden Gate, her ocean-going prow slicing the waves.

   • 1983, Mary Stiles Kline, George Albert Bayless, Ferryboats: a legend on Puget Sound, link:

     It was on this vessel that the founder of the second largest ferryboat company on Puget Sound...

• → Albanian: ferribot
• → Bulgarian: ферибот (feribot)
• → Greek: φέρι μποτ (féri bot)
• → Japanese: フェリーボート (ferībōto)
• → Macedonian: ферибот (feribot)
• → Portuguese: ferryboat
• → Romanian: feribot
• → Serbo-Croatian: fèribot / фѐрибот
• → Sicilian: ferrubbottu
• → Turkish: feribot

Unadapted borrowing from English ferryboat.

ferryboat m (invariable)

1. ferryboat

   Synonym: ferry

• “ferryboat”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “ferryboat”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024