"ferryman" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person who operates a ferry boat across a body of water. For example, "The ferryman steered the boat across the lake as passengers disembarked."
And, as John the ferryman suggested, there's always the option of last orders at the Ferry Inn before you.
In this tucked-away harbour on the south Cornish coast, it's not simply a case of paying the ferryman, but of having a darn good natter with him, too, if you want to make the most of your stay.
The Mara river reminds her of fairy tales, the parting of the Red Sea, the Rio Grande separating Mexico and Texas, and of Buddha as a ferryman in Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha".
Charon the name of Pluto's largest moon is a ferryman in the service of Pluto, or Hades.
Jacobsen's first novel, Fru Marie Grubbe (1876; Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century), is a psychological study of a 17th-century woman whose natural instincts are stronger than her social instincts and result in her descent on the social scale from a viceroy's consort to the wife of a ferryman.
On the way Enlil took the shape first of the Nippur gatekeeper, then of the man of the river of the netherworld, and lastly of the ferryman of the river of the netherworld.
An empire was for a short time achieved whose extent and stability enabled Alp-Arslan's and Malik-Shah's great minister, Niẓām al-Mulk (died 1092), to pay a ferryman on the Oxus River with a draft cashable in Damascus.
400 bce), discovered at Tarquinii in 1987, or in the Francois Tomb from Vulci, where the blue-skinned devil Charu (only remotely resembling the Greek ferryman Charon) waits with his hammer to strike the deceased and take him away to the underworld.
The moon was named for Charon, the ferryman of dead souls to the realm of Hades (the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Pluto) in Greek mythology.
"Getting the right people is important," says ferryman Alisdair McNeill.
Romans believed that by burying a person with coins, his or her spirit could pay the underworld's ferryman and they would safely make it to the afterlife.
