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Ferryman
Ferryman meaning
A man who operates a ferry. | Charon.
Example sentences (12)
They came to me from Joe Guttridge, whose father was a former ferryman, Medmenham over to the Hurley side.
With the story beginning after the death of the player, a mythical ferryman walks the player back through their life by experiencing their most important moments again.
But it is Donnelly — who scored a Tony nomination for “The Ferryman” — and her dual roles here that ground the play and give it its resonance.
The ferryman pointed to an old run-down tavern just up the hill.
Eyewitness Thomas Ferryman told GetSurrey that he had heard 'many small explosions', which he believed could be batteries for the electric vehicles.
I liked “Ferryman” and thought the production was exceptional.
That’s fitting, I guess, for the ferryman to souls.
Jez Butterworth’s drama “The Ferryman,” about the past coming back to haunt a Northern Ireland family, won three prizes including best play, best director for Sam Mendes and best actress for Laura Donnelly.
Dante put Phlegyas as ferryman over the Styx and made it the fifth circle of Hell, where the wrathful and sullen are punished by being drowned in the muddy waters for eternity, with the wrathful fighting each other.
He used the passage which opens at Aornum in Thesprotis and, on his arrival, not only charmed the ferryman Charon..
The third is yet to come and will dry the sea altogether, thus depriving the ferryman of his livelihood.
To cross the river, the ferryman orients the boat around 45° from the current so that the current pushes the boat across the river.