These are the meanings of the letters YFERRE when you unscramble them.
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Ferry (v. t.)
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
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Ferry (v. i.)
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
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Ferry (v. t.)
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
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Ferry (v. t.)
A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
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Ferry (v. t.)
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
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Freer (n.)
One who frees, or sets free.
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Frere (n.)
A friar.
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Reefy (a.)
Full of reefs or rocks.
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Refer (v. t.)
To carry or send back.
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Refer (v. t.)
Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
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Refer (v. t.)
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
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Refer (v. i.)
To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
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Refer (v. i.)
To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
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Refer (v. i.)
To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
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Refer (v. i.)
To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.