It can pass the ferry backward into light. --Milton.
To row me o'er the ferry. --Campbell.
2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over
narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
3. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying
passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging
tolls.
{Ferry bridge}, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the
transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.
{Ferry railway}. See under {Railway}.