horse ferry
English
Noun
horse ferry (plural horse ferries)
- (now chiefly historical) A ferry that transports horses.
- 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 45:
- Again, petitions against [Westminster Bridge] were received from many, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose gift the horse ferry from Lambeth to Westminster lay.
- 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 45: