ferryman:
(plural: ‘ferrymen’)
‘ferry’ or ‘ferryboat’ = a small, usually flat, boat that carries people or things regularly from one side to another side of a narrow body of water, such as a narrow river, lake, stream, pond, etc.
a person who owns, maintains and works a ferry (ferryboat),
a ferryman working his ferry
e.g.
Before bridges were invented, people crossed streams, rivers and lakes on ferries, and a ferryman used to be an essential character in the society.
There has been the mentioning of a ferryman in all most of the mythologies, religious scriptures and fables from all over the world and in each one, ferrymen are portrayed as wise in their speech and sincere in their duty.
As the modern ferries are different from those of the past and are run by fuel, the people who work on them are given news names, names other than the good old ‘ferrymen’, such as ‘ferry operator’, ‘boatman’, ‘skipper’, ‘bargeman’, etc.
For an article about the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology, please click here, for an article about a senior ferryman, please click here, (For an item of news in which we see ‘ferry man’ as two words which has nothing to with any ferry or ferryman, but belongs to a place called “Broughty Ferry”, please click here.) and for an item of news that reports a ferryman being shown of TV, please click here.
Compare: boatman
Note: ‘Ferryman’, always with a capital ‘F’, is often found in the names of people, e.g. John Ferryman, Carl Ferryman, Sue M Ferryman, etc. For an article that shows us the origin of this word as a surname, please click here.
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