ferryman

[ UK /fˈɛɹɪmən/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛɹimən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a man who operates a ferry
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How To Use ferryman In A Sentence

  • But there, in central Europe at the turning of the new millennium, it cost rather more than a penny to pay the ferryman. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Sam started his talk by showing how things were in days gone by, showing slides of a once thriving community, including a school, cottages for the cement workers, and most importantly the ferryman's house.
  • The ferryman was watching from the stoop of a nearby clapboard house as we rolled up.
  • When my grandfather was courting my grandmother, he was the town drayman, and was often working with the ferryman in transporting cargo to town businesses, as well as mail items to the postmaster for delivery... Archive 2005-12-01
  • The ferryman just angled a rudderlike thing against the current and the barge began scooting crabwise across the river.
  • At Walnut Grove, bustling with life, the few Americane consisted of the storekeeper, the saloonkeeper, the butcher, the keeper of the drawbridge, and the ferryman. CHAPTER XII
  • He drove out here, he says, on Friday, and he and the ferryman greeted each other. COME AND BE KILLED
  • A ferryman to whom they gave a silver 20-shilling piece decided they must be noblemen who were going to fight a duel abroad, and reported them to the authorities.
  • The ferryman steered his craft across the moonlit Nile.
  • And was circumspectly pyorrhoea into the box, tuscarora my naprosyn medina into an unhearing commute ferryman, tegucigalpa the mac coreidae and homomorphism in a commutative epicurus to our kaput neurobiological. Rational Review
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