"ferry-boat" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219:",
          "text": "Three miles below town the ferry-boat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.",
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          "text": "Three miles below town the ferry-boat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.",
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  "word": "ferry-boat"
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