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# ferryboat

noun (ferryboat, ferryboats)

«ferryboat» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A ferryboat is a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river or sea and back again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a boat that carries the hero across a river

### Examples

- We crossed the river on the ferryboat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/#x1)
- He sprang into the ferryboat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/#x2)
- The ferryboat carried twenty people at a time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/#x3)

### Note

A ferryboat's load is a count: 3 trips of 20 people make 60; the word itself adds no number.

## In Jewish tradition

in tales, a boat that carries the hero across a river

### Examples

- And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. (Prophets 2SA.19.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/ferryboat/#x1)

### Note

A ferryboat's load is a count: 3 trips of 20 people make 60; the word itself adds no number.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ferryboat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ferryboat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ferryboat.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «ferryboat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/ferryboat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ferryboat» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ferryboat.html) on Mova free.