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ferryboat

noun

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of ferryboat The open-deck ferryboat from Cedar Island to Ocracoke hums along for just over two hours to a terminal in a sheltered harbor. —

Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023 The Boat Trip: Etchings by Charles Francois Daubigny In 1857, French landscape painter Charles Francois Daubigny purchased a 27-foot ferryboat and converted it into a floating studio. —

Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023 So what’s a guy like Welsh doing musing about his mortality on a creaky ferryboat? —

Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012 That new platform, Ashley said, would be located where the Berkeley, an 1898 steam ferryboat, is currently docked. —

Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for ferryboat

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In those days, as international trade was transformed by refrigerated steamships, Argentina was a major exporter of grain and meat, by some measures as wealthy as the United States.

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
And, within about 48 hours, local vigilantes rounded up Chinese residents — hundreds of people — forced them onto steamships bound for San Francisco and told them to never return again.

Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024