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 →

sense in the lessons

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

examples

• We crossed the river on the ferryboat. tree →
• He sprang into the ferryboat. tree →
• The ferryboat carried twenty people at a time. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ferryboat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.