different between verry vs ferry

English

Adjective

verry (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of very

Adverb

verry (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of very
   • 1819, Nancy Collin, Letter to her parents, 2007, Terrance Keenan, If Our Lives Be Spared: A Saga of the Collin Family Settlers in Early New York State, page 62,

     I have enjoyed a verry poor state of health since I wrote to you last ...

   • 1862, Solomon York, Letter to his future wife, 2004, Wallace E. Jarrell, The Randolph Hornets in the Civil War, page 168,

     I have nothing verry interesting to write.

   • 1913, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volumes 43-45, page 626,

     When we first came to this place our men were verry feeble […] .

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey, convey in a boat”), from Old English ferian (“to carry, convey, bear, bring, lead, conduct, betake oneself to, be versed in, depart, go”), from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjan? (“to make or let go, transfer, ferry”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring or carry over, transfer, pass through”).

Cognate with German dialectal feren, fähren (“to row, sail”), Danish færge (“to ferry”), Swedish färja (“to ferry”), Icelandic ferja (“to ferry”), Old Norse ferja. Related to fare.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??i/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?f???/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -??i
  • Homophone: fairy (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: fer?ry

Verb

ferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)

1. (transitive) To carry; transport; convey.

   Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

   • 2007, Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks:

     We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.

2. (transitive) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.

3. (transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
4. (intransitive) To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.

Noun

ferry (plural ferries)

1. A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
2. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
   • 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

     to row us o'er the ferry

   • c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:

     She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.

3. The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• boat
• ship

Anagrams

• Freyr, Fryer, fryer, refry

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.?i/

Noun

ferry m (plural ferries or ferrys)

1. ferry

Derived terms

• car-ferry

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ferri

Etymology

From English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?feri/, [?fe.ri]

Noun

ferry m (plural ferrys or ferries)

1. ferry

   Synonyms: transbordador, trasbordador