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# ferryboat

«ferryboat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a boat that carries people, cars or goods across a river…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ferryboat, ferryboats)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

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

### examples

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

- [And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.571/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ferryboat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferryboat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.