What is the name meaning of FERRY. Phrases containing FERRY
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FERRY
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Irish
Brave man.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Swim or Ferry Across
Male
Babylonian
, a ferryman.
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English (London)
English (London) : probably an occupational name for a ferryman.
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English
English : occupational name for a ferryman (see Ferry).
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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Australian, Greek
A Ferryman
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Indian
Lamp of redemption, Swim, Ferry across
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Dutch
From the ferry.
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Adventurous
Boy/Male
Indian
Swim, Ferry across
Boy/Male
Sikh
Swim, Ferry across (1)
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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’.
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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’.
Boy/Male
Sikh
Lamp of redemption, Swim, Ferry across (1)
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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
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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Celtic
Brave; Virtuous. Famous Bearers: Canadian singer Brian Adams and British singer Bryan Ferry.
Girl/Female
Australian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Gold; Tender; Precious; Bright; Ferry
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Greek
Ferryman across the river Styx.
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imp. & p. p.
of Ferry
v. t.
A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
v. i.
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
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.
pl.
of Ferryman
pl.
of Ferry
n.
A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
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.
v. t.
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
n.
A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
n.
A ferryman.
v. t.
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
n.
One who maintains or attends a ferry.
v. t.
A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
n.
The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
v. t.
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ferry
n.
A ferry.