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horse ferry en · NOUN
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(historical) A watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill.
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(historical) A ferry that transports horses.
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, published 2017, page 45:
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