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▪ I. ferry, n.1|ˈfɛrɪ|
Forms: 5 ferrye, 5–6 fery(e, 6 ferrie, 5– ferry.
[f. the vb.; its late appearance seems to exclude the supposition that it is a. ON. ferja of equivalent formation. Cf. Du. veer, MHG. vere, ver, mod.G. fähre in same sense.]
†1. A passage or crossing. Obs.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xl. 143 At þe Ferry of þe Hill þai mete.
2. esp. A passage or place where boats pass over a river, etc. to transport passengers and goods.
c1440Promp. Parv. 156/2 Fery over a watyr. c1470Henry Wallace i. 285 Besyd Landoris the ferrye our thai past. 1535Coverdale Judg. iii. 28 They folowed him, & wanne y⊇ ferye of Iordane. 1538Leland Itin. I. 31 There be 4..Placis namid as ferys apon the Water of Lindis. 1611Coryat Crudities 20 The ferry where we were transported into the Ile of France. 1775Wyndham Tour Wales 42 Just above the ferry is the seat of Mr. Vernon. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 95 We blow..when we come nigh the taverns..or post offices, or ferries.
3. a. Provision for the conveyance of passengers, etc. by boat from one shore to the other.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn viii. 33 The knight of the Ferry attended to receiue him. 1700Mod. Law Reports iii. 294 The Defendant had petitioned the king to destroy the Ferry. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr Hist. Servia x. 193 Not to interfere with the ferry of Poscharewaz. 1892Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 20 A ferry was established where London Bridge now stands.
fig.1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. v. 32 We have all of us our ferries in this world.
b. = ferry-boat.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 19 She soon to hand Her ferry brought. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. iv. 53 Bring them I pray thee..to the common Ferrie Which trades to Venice. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3722/1 The French had sunk divers Ferries and other Boats in the River. 1798R. P. Tour in Wales 24 (MS.) We here engaged a ferry over the Wye. 1951Oxf. Jun. Encycl. IV. 147 (caption) Dover–Dunkirk train-ferry in Dover docks. The opening through which the trains run on to the ferry can be seen on the left. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 85 Ferry,..any boat employed in ferrying goods and passengers.
c. Used allusively with reference to Charon's ferry (see Charon); to take the ferry: to die.
1895G. Meredith Amaz. Marr. xxviii, The Lethean ferry-boatload. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vi. 266 What are you going to do with your pictures when you take the ferry? Leave them to the nation?
d. Used jocularly to describe the passage between England and New York, Australia, or New Zealand.
1902C. J. C. Hyne Mr. Horrocks Purser 57 They see funny things on the Atlantic ferry which rich young men get mixed up in. 1907Daily Chron. 11 June 10/4 Nearly all the Australian States are now offering assisted passages to selected immigrants... Why should not the Imperial Government take a hand in this, and in certain cases contribute the other {pstlg}6, and thus realise the ‘free ferry’? 1930C. E. Lee (title) The Blue Riband: the romance of the Atlantic ferry.
e. Of aircraft: a flight for carrying goods or persons from one place to another, esp. one of a series of flights on a regular course; also applied to the aircraft itself. Of spacecraft: a module that can be separated from the main craft, e.g. for the final descent to the surface of the moon; so ferry rocket. Freq. attrib. and Comb.
1917Flying 28 Nov. 296/1 Should you chance to live in eastern or south eastern counties you may see them going over..flown by ferry pilots. 1933Meccano Mag. Nov. 845/3 If a machine is intended purely for joy riding and short ferry services, arrangement can be made for an eight-seater to be provided. 1939Flying 1 July 4/1 Applications are being invited from those wishing to take part in these long-distance ferry flights. 1939Flight 9 Nov. 373/1 The chances that an enemy machine might masquerade as a ferry are very small. Ibid. 373/2 The senior pilots of a ferry unit must remember the layout, characteristics, and fuel systems of as many as ten or a dozen machines. 1940Ibid. 28 Mar. 282/1 Groups were attached to the two Service ferry pools and these groups worked happily. Ibid., Those experts in all⁓type ferry flying, the R.A.F. pilots. 1942Times Weekly 9 Sept. 9/1 Filling petrol tanks of United States ferry planes at airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts. 1943Jane's All World's Aircraft, 1942 29 a/2 In June, 1941, the R.A.F. formed the Ferry Command to take charge of all trans-Atlantic deliveries by air. Ibid. 30 a/1 The West African ferry route to the Middle East is also used by the communications aircraft on the United Nations. 1943Times Weekly 19 May 8/2 A pool of ferry pilots..flew aircraft of all types right across Africa to Khartoum and Cairo. 1951A. C. Clarke Exploration Space 78 At the end of these manœuvres, which would occupy only a few hours, it would be back in a stable, circular orbit waiting to be refuelled and serviced, and the crew could be taken down to Earth by one of the winged ‘ferry’ rockets. 1960F. Gaynor Dict. Aerospace 90 Ferry rocket, the final step of the planned piloted space vehicle, designed for transporting personnel between earth and the terminal orbit. 1969Times 3 June Suppl. p. iii/8 The two-stage module—the disposable landing ferry that takes the astronauts from their circling space⁓craft to the lunar surface—is at the heart of the American plans to land two men on the moon this summer.
4. Law. The right of ferrying men and animals across a river, etc., and of levying toll for so doing.
1721Termes de la Ley 344 Ferry, is a Liberty by Prescription, or the Kings Grant. 1708Shower Reports 257 If a Ferry were granted at this Day, he that accepts such Grant, is bound to keep a Boat for the Publick Good. 1843Meeson & Welsby Exchequer Reports X. 161 The defendants..were possessed of a certain ferry across..the River Mersey. 1862Law Reports XXXI. Common Pl. 247 The plaintiffs are the lessees of an ancient ferry.
5. attrib. and Comb.
a. Chiefly attributive, as ferry-boy, ferry-craft, ferry-place, ferry-pole, ferry-receipts, ferry-service, ferry-warden, ferry-way.
1812Examiner 21 Dec. 816/2 James Dean, a *ferry-boy.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1306 For *fery craft na fraucht he thocht to crawe.
c1440Promp. Parv. 156/2 *Fery place. 1665Pepys Diary (1879) III. 193 Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich. 1806Sporting Mag. XXVII. 173 The ferry-place at Portsea.
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 23 There are..A *ferry-poal, and frogs in Stygian waves.
1858J. B. Norton Topics 186 The surplus *ferry receipts..are..given up by the State.
1892Pall Mall G. 23 Feb. 3/3 It is proposed to build a pier here, and..to establish a *ferry service.
1576Act 18 Eliz. c. 10 §10 The said *Ferry-warden.
1884Harper's Mag. Oct. 809/1 The town voted to discontinue the *ferryway and the ferry.
b. Special comb., as ferry-bridge (see quot.); ferry-flat, U.S. a flat boat used for crossing (and sometimes descending) rivers; ferry-house, the residence of a ferry-man, also attrib.; † ferry-look (see quot.); ferry-louper, one who has crossed from the mainland, Orkn.; ferry-master, U.S. a person in charge of a ferry; also, one who collects the tolls at a ferry (Cent. Dict.); ferry-nab (see quot.); ferry-railway (see quot.). Also ferry-boat, ferry-man.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., *Ferry-bridge, a form of ferry-boat in which the railway-train moves on to the elevated deck, is transported across the water and then lands upon the other side.
1828Flint Mississippi Valley I. 230 The *ferry flat is a scow-boat.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxi, There was a light in the *ferry-house window. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 329 A ferryhouse stretches out like a sickle in the blue sea.
1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. I. 153 [The keeper of this ferry has the right] to dredge for Oysters within the compass of his *Ferry-look which extends..60 Fathoms, on each Side of the Castle.
1868D. Gorrie Summ. & Wint. Orkneys iv. 143 This misguided man was a *ferry-louper.
1883All Year Round 19 May 465 Shouts [came] for a boat, as if from the *ferry-nab, or point, on the other side.
1847Knight Dict. Mech., *Ferry-railway, one whose track is on the bottom of the watercourse and whose carriage has an elevated deck which supports the train.
▪ II. † ˈferry, n.2 Cookery. Obs.
[Etymology unknown; OF. had ‘pain feré’, explained by Godef. as ‘bread for a festival’.]
More fully, caudle ferry: A kind of spiced drink made with wine and eggs. Also app. some kind of sauce.
c1390Form Cury xli. 27 Cawdel ferry. Take floer of Payndemayn and gode wyne, etc. c1475Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 32 Cawdelle ferry. Tak clene yolks of egge welle betene, etc. 1504in Leland Collect. VI. 21 Carpe in ferry.
▪ III. ferry, v.|ˈfɛrɪ|
Forms: 1 ferian, feriᵹ(e)an, 2–3 ferien, 4–5 fery, fere, 6 ferrie, 6– ferry. Also 3–4 verie(n, (5 veryen).
[OE. fęrian = OHG. feren, ON. ferja, Goth. farjan:—OTeut. *farjan, f. far-om: see fare n.]
1. trans. To carry, convey, transport, take from one place to another.
Beowulf 333 (Gr.) Hwanon feriᵹeað ᵹe fætte scyldas? a1000Elene 108 (Gr.) Heht..wiᵹend..þæt haliᵹe treo him beforan ferian. c1175Lamb. Hom. 111 Ȝif he ȝeher-godne mon fereð to buriene. c1205Lay. 10559 He uerde forð in sæ uereden hine vðen. a1300Seven Sins 42 in E.E.P. (1862) 19 Þe fend him deriiþ . and is soul to helle he feriiþ. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1790 Þe kyng..watz kaȝt by þe heles, Feryed out bi þe fete. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 82 We..ferrie it to the deuil. 1970H. Waugh Finish me Off (1971) 163 Then we warn the doormen and the super on her building that it wouldn't look good for them to ferry customers to her apartment.
2. a. esp. To transport or convey over water (now only over a stream, canal, etc., formerly also over the sea) in a boat or ship, etc. Often to ferry (a person, etc.) over or across.
a1000Andreas 293 (Gr.) We þe..willað feriᵹan freolice ofer fisces bæð. a1000Riddles xv. 7 (Gr.) Mec..mere⁓hengest fereð ofer flodas. 1587F. James in Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 199 For ferrienge oure horses..from Lambeth..6d. 1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 21 In this case without ferrying ouer the horse there was nothing due vnto the bargeman. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy v. xi. 6 Charon is tyr'd, with ferring soules to hell. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3722/2 Before night almost half of them were ferried over. 1784Cowper Task ii. 38 They themselves once ferried o'er the wave..are emancipate and loosed. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. II. iii. 45 A girl who had ferried me over the Severn. 1877C. M. Yonge Cameos IV. i. 15 He was ferried to the French bank.
absol.1457Nottingham Rec. II. 365 Peid to Tomas Smyth, for fereyng v. days at y⊇ Bryges. 1843Marryat M. Violet xliv, The owner of a ferry..ferries only when he chooses.
b. To work (a boat, etc.) across or over.
1771E. Griffith tr. Viaud's Shipwreck 92 The rotten canoe, that he had however contrived to ferry over. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xv. 281 He promised a napoleon to every boat which was ferried across.
c. Of a vessel: To serve as a ferry-boat over.
1872W. F. Butler Great Lone Land iv. (1875) 55 A steamer ferries the broad swift-running stream.
d. To fly (an aircraft), or to transport by air, from one place to another, esp. on some regular route, as from a factory to an airfield.
1921Flight XIII. 620/2 Both the Aircraft Disposal Company, and the Bristol people, are having difficulty in finding pilots to ferry these machines across to Spain. Ibid. 662/2 He is..‘ferrying’ machines from Liverpool to Croydon. 1932R. Mahachek Airplane Pilot's Man. 353 Ferrying, delivering an airplane to another point by flying it. 1940Flight 28 Mar. 282/1 Women pilots..were..attached to a certain factory for the ferrying of trainers. 1943Times Weekly 19 May 8/2 Gradually the ferrying route came into operation. 1958Daily Mail 18 July 1/1 Israel's permission to ferry troop-carriers through her air-space was not at first fully cleared.
3. a. intr. for refl. To convey oneself, go; now only, to pass over water in a boat or by a ferry. Of a boat: To pass to and fro.
a1000Byrhtnoth 179 (Gr.) Þæt min sawul to þe siðian mote..mid friðe ferian. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 178 Crist seide to hem verie we over þe water. c1450Lonelich Grail l. 176 In to here schippe forto take him, forto veryen ouer that lake. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 30 She sayling to Styx, thow ferriest ouer to Phlegeton. 1600Holland Livy v. i. (1609) 1383 note, They that would goe to it, used to ferry over in small punts or whirries. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 631 Upon these waters doe ferry fiftie thousand Boats..to serve the use of the Citie. 1787Burns Verse, When death's dark stream I ferry o'er. 1833Lamb Elia (1860) 267 It irks me to think that..thou shouldst ferry over..in crazy Stygian wherry. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 333, I intended to remain until the weather cleared before I ferried back. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes 72, I ferried across it.
†b. fig. to ferry over: to pass over, pretermit.
1477J. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 787 III. 175, I may not wryght longe, wherffor I ffery over all thyngs tyll I may awayte on you my selff. |