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Definition of Ferryboats
1. ferryboat [n] - See also: ferryboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferryboats
Literary usage of Ferryboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"Charges should be made to this account during the life of the ferryboats except in
... In case of ferryboats prematurely retired, charges to this account ..."
2. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1854)
"Fulton's Steam ferryboats. — Boat for the Navigation of the Sound. — Boats planned
by Fulton, and left unfinished at the Time of his Death. ..."
3. The United States Federal Internal Tax History from 1861 to 1871 by Harry Edwin Smith (1914)
"3 per cent Of other railroads and ferryboats, upon passenger traffic * . 1J Of
toll-bridges, upon receipts of every description * ..."
4. Supplement ... to the Public Health Reports by United States Public Health Service (1921)
"NEW YORK, NY Railroad Cars, Omnibuses, ferryboats, Railroad Stations, Ferry
Houses, Etc.—Cleaning. (Reg. Bd. of II.. Oct. 15, 1918.) SEC. 301. ..."
5. Cradle Days of New York: (1609-1825) by Hugh McAtamney (1909)
"... of Hudson Traffic Granted to Robert R. Livingston—His Craft a Failure—Fulton
and the Clermont's First Trip to Albany—First Steam ferryboats. ..."