Thesaurus results for FERRYBOAT

ferryboat

noun

Definition of ferryboat

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of ferryboat Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026 Right now, engineers and craft workers are teaming up to design and build the new ferryboat. — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 1 May 2026 The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century. — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025 One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island. — Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ferryboat

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The Brotherhood later sued a Chesapeake Bay steamship, named the Sue, that had refused to admit Black passengers to its first-class cabin.

— Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2026
Those who chose to rest on the banks of the Potomac River could be seen by steamship passengers playing bridge and dancing in the river breeze.

— Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

The Boeing 737 entered service in 1999 as a passenger aircraft before it was converted into a freighter in 2011.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
The 737-400 was first delivered as a passenger plane to Russia’s Aeroflot in 1999 and was converted to a freighter in 2012, according to Flightradar24.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

Boom operators are those who direct the transfer of fuel from the KC-135 fuel tanker to other aircraft mid-flight.

— Chris Kenning, USA Today, 26 July 2026
Of course, this growing mass constitutes a serious threat to the ocean ecosystem, not to mention the environmental catastrophes regularly caused by tanker accidents themselves.

— Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

The mollusk’s larvae are also invisible to the naked eye and can be easily transported in standing water if watercraft and equipment are not properly cleaned and drained.

— Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026
But boats, kayaks, paddleboards and other watercraft activities are allowed until mid-October.

— Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 14 July 2026

Definition of watercraft

Noun

The robot is intended for inspection work, material transport, and assembly tasks inside industrial facilities.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
Those winds suppress the upward drag of cooler water from the deep ocean through Ekman transport or the Ekman Spiral.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026

Definition of transport

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