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It is a large, flat-decked boat that takes you and/or your car across a body of water from point A to point B - for a price (a "toll").
The word 'ferry' comes from an Old English word meaning to carry by water.
Roads called "ferry" typically refer to historic roads that used to connect to a ferry crossing water. The name is a remnant of the past when travelers had to take a ferry across a river or body of water to continue their journey.
a ferry
A cross channel ferry is a ferry that carries passengers across a water body called a channel. A channel is a water body that connects two seas. The channel must be deep enough to be navigable.
Permit is required from stadium.
When I cross the sound, I ride on the ferry boat.Many people commute across the open water by ferry.The Staten Island Ferry is free.
Ferry's do not sink primarily because the density of a ferry is lower than that of water, of which the density is 1g/mL. Because there is alot of air in a ferry and distribution of wait a ferry will not sink. However, if a ferry were to collide with something or experience a situation which would alter it's density of distribution of weight, than the ferry may sink.
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I live there, its fine
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A cruise Sailing A ferry crossing