0 past simple and past participle of ferry
1 to transport people or goods in a vehicle, especially regularly and often:
The system of sorting mail as it was ferried between major postal terminals proceeded as follows.
Two young men are ferried to the island by an old man and his young niece.
I appreciate, however, that big lorries can save a great deal by waiting to be ferried across.
And no suburban isolation here, no deserted streets or children ferried everywhere insulated in their parents' cars!
This was after four years of war, during which women have ferried planes across the country at a wage two-thirds that of the men.
First, the passengers, or the goods, have to be lowered into a small boat alongside the steamer, and then they have to be ferried ashore.
One is ferried about in conditions worse than those experienced by cattle.
On these occasions pedestrians and other traffic which cannot use the motorway will be "ferried" across by means of special buses.
