n.小船；摆渡船
The person sitting on the wherry is my old classmate. 那个坐在划艇上的人是我的老同学。
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。
