wherry meaning in English

n.
摆渡船；单人小船；〔英国〕(河上交通运输用)平底大船。

These wherries are large vessels, with good accommodation for carrying passengers from harwich to london .
这些小艇很宽敞，设备也很好，专从哈立治送乘客到伦敦去。
I came to the bar, and paid my reckoning, telling my landlady i had gotten my passage by sea in a wherry .
我跑到柜上，付了店钱，告诉女掌柜我在一艘小艇上已经定了舱位。
They were , says mr stephen , and the end was that the men of the island , seeing no help was toward as the ungrate women were all of one mind , made a wherry raft , loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard , set all masts erect , manned the yards , sprang their luff , heaved to , spread three sheets in the wind , put her head between wind and water , weighed anchor , ported her helm , ran up the jolly roger , gave three times three , let the bullgine run , pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of america
“此语不差” ，斯蒂芬先生曰， “其结果，本岛男子发现负情女子异口同声，无可救药。遂建造舟筏，携家财登船，桅杆尽皆竖起，举行登舷礼，转船首向风，顶风停泊，扬起三面帆，在风与水之间挺起船首，起锚，转舵向左，海盗旗迎风飘扬，三呼万岁，每次三遍，开动舱底污水泵，离开兜售杂物之小舟，驶至海面上，航往美洲大陆。 ”