ferry-boat

See also: ferryboat and ferry boat

English

Noun

ferry-boat (plural ferry-boats)

1. Alternative form of ferryboat
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219:

     Three miles below town the ferry-boat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.

French

Noun

ferry-boat m (plural ferry-boats)

1. ferryboat

Further reading

• “ferry-boat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.