What is the name meaning of FERRY. Phrases containing FERRY
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FERRY
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Sikh
Lamp of redemption, Swim, Ferry across (1)
Boy/Male
Sikh
Swim, Ferry across (1)
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Irish
Brave man.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Swim or Ferry Across
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English
English : occupational name for a ferryman (see Ferry).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : altered form of the medieval family name Passelewe (assimilated by folk etymology to the herb name parsley). The medieval name is from Old French passe(r) ‘to pass or cross’ + l’ewe ‘the water’, hence a nickname, probably for a ferryman or a merchant who was in the habit of traveling overseas, or else someone who had been on a pilgrimage or crusade. It may also have been used as a topographic name for someone who lived on the opposite side of a watercourse from the main settlement.
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English (London)
English (London) : probably an occupational name for a ferryman.
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Greek
Ferryman across the river Styx.
Boy/Male
Indian
Swim, Ferry across
Boy/Male
Australian, Greek
A Ferryman
Male
Greek
(ΧάÏων) Greek name KHARON means "fierce brightness." In mythology, this is the name of the ferryman of Hades who ferries the dead across the river Acheron.
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Dutch
From the ferry.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear ‘man’.English : metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb ferian ‘to carry’.
Girl/Female
Australian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Gold; Tender; Precious; Bright; Ferry
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Celtic
Brave; Virtuous. Famous Bearers: Canadian singer Brian Adams and British singer Bryan Ferry.
Boy/Male
Indian
Lamp of redemption, Swim, Ferry across
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Irish (Galway)
Irish (Galway) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh (see Ferry).English : from the Old English personal name Fæger ‘fair’ + dǣge ‘servant’, hence ‘servant of (a man called) Fair’.
Male
Babylonian
, a ferryman.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Adventurous
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English
English : habitational name from North Ferriby in East Yorkshire or South Ferriby in Lincolnshire, both named from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’ + býr ‘farmstead’.
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n.
One who maintains or attends a ferry.
n.
A ferry.
n.
The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
v. i.
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
v. t.
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
pl.
of Ferry
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ferry
imp. & p. p.
of Ferry
n.
A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
n.
A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
v. t.
A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
n.
The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
pl.
of Ferryman
n.
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
n.
A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
v. t.
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
n.
A ferryman.
v. t.
A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
v. t.
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.