[f. FERRY v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FERRY; an instance of the same. Also attrib., as ferrying-fee, station.
1873. A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, I. II. ii. 311. The ‘Parali’ lived by boat-building, ferrying, the manufacture of salt, and fishing.
1879. J. Todhunter, Alcestis, 47.
| Methought I waited by the gloomy coast, | |
| For Charon’s dismal ferrying, till there came | |
| A winged thing, and rapt me home again. |
1887. Pall Mall G., 8 March, 4/2. The … fisherfolk., would practically be deprived of the ferrying-fees between the steamers and the grotto.
1873. A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, I. II. i. 271. She [Corinth] was destined not, like a hundred other places on the coast, to be a mere ferrying-station with a lucrative transit-trade, but to rule the sea.
