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To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry. They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro. Milton.

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

One who maintains or attends a ferry.

A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

A ferryboat. See Bac, 1

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

A ferryman. Calthrop.

for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. -- Floa…

orough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of ano…

A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A ferry. [Obs.] Shak.

seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.