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n. A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods.

n. A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule

n. A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., usually across streams, rivers, bays, and other narrow waters.

n. A vessel or boat moved by steam, sails, oars or sweeps, a towline, or the force of a current, used to convey passengers, vehicles, cattle, etc., across a river, harbor, or other contracted waterway between opposite shores.

n. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

"The ferryboat is a round-bottomed, wobbly sampan, with a tiny cabin in the stern."

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