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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Noun

The ferry also stops on Ellis Island, part of the national park, and is famous for processing more than 12 million immigrant steamship passengers through its federal immigration station from 1892 to 1954.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2026
The seasoning’s name is a nod to the region’s maritime history and is named for the Old Bay Line, a passenger steamship that traveled the Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia, in the early 1900s.

— Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 31 July 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

The barge clearance level at Kaub on the Rhine, a key chokepoint for river shipments to southern Germany and Switzerland, continues to drop.

— Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
In other parts of the route, the road drops close enough to the river so that drivers can watch barge traffic on the Mississippi.

— Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026

Definition of barge

Noun

Made from lightweight, stretchy nylon and spandex fabric, it can be worn right out of your suitcase without having to break out a steamer.

— Mariette Williams, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2026
Its knit fabric never requires an iron or steamer, and it’s held up through countless washes without pilling despite my lackadaisical approach to laundry.

— Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of steamer

Noun

The ship is similar in size and capacity to the Sanchi, an Iranian ship that collided with a freighter off China in 2018 in the world’s worst oil tanker disaster in decades.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026
Ground handling and tarmac loading have fully resumed, though flight schedules will require another 24-to-48 hours to clear passenger and freighter backlogs.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

At least one ship entered using the Iranian route, and a small tanker laden with Iranian fuel oil exited, data showed.

— August 17, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Of the outbound traffic, four vessels — including a tanker laden with 2 million barrels of Saudi crude - sailed with their satellite trackers off.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

The two people who went missing while riding personal watercraft off the coast of Long Beach over the weekend are sharing their stories of survival after they were rescued by first responders.

— Jeff Nguyen, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks aims to have the watercraft on the lake before fall 2027, and possibly sooner, said General Manager Jimmy Kim.

— Hanna Kang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of watercraft

Noun

The ‘next step’ On a sunny September day last year in the Chinese port city of Ningbo, not far from Shanghai, higher-ups from shipping company Sea Legend mingled with local transport officials at a port terminal.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
In the 20-foot configuration, a Containerized Missile Launcher can accommodate up to 18 FV-014 and is fully compatible with existing transport, logistics and operational platforms.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026

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