ferry

noun
UK /ˈferi/
US /ˈferi/

A boat that carries people and things across water.

We took the ferry to the island.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. To carry people or things from one place to another, often back and forth.

The bus ferries children to school every morning.

3. A service that regularly carries people across water.

The ferry runs every hour between the two towns.

4. To transport something by boat across a river or lake.

They ferried the cars across the river on a small boat.