ferryboat

See also: ferry-boat, and ferry boat

English

This small open ferryboat is used on the Hampton Ferry across the River Thames

Alternative forms

• ferry-boat, ferry boat

Etymology

From ferry +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: fer‧ry‧boat

Noun

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...

Descendants

• → 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

Translations

boat

Armenian: լաստանավ (hy) (lastanav) Catalan: transbordador m, ferri (ca) m Dutch: veerboot (nl) f or m Esperanto: pramo Finnish: lautta (fi), autolautta (fi) German: Fährboot n, Fährschiff (de) n, Fähre (de) f, (Austrian) Überfuhr (de) f Irish: bád farantóireachta m, bád fartha. m, bád calaidh m Korean: 연락선 (yeollakseon) Latin: pontō m Malayalam: കടത്തുവള്ളം (kaṭattuvaḷḷaṁ), കടത്തുതോണി (ml) (kaṭattutōṇi) Pannonian Rusyn: траєкт m inan (trajekt) Polish: prom (pl) m Portuguese: ferryboat (pt) m, ferry (pt) m, balsa (pt) f Sicilian: ferrubbottu m Spanish: ferry (es) m, transbordador (es) m, barco (es) m, ferri (es) m Turkish: araba vapuru (tr), feribot (tr) Volapük: lovenaf (vo), lovebot, lovenaföm

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ferryboat.

Noun

ferryboat m (invariable)

1. ferryboat

   Synonym: ferry

Further reading

• “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