ford
2
4.0
- noun
- /fɔrd/
:
vado
- After a long journey, we finally found a safe ford to cross the river.
Examples
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All that morning, See-Far-Ahead had borne westward over gently rising foothills, and across the shallowest ford of a wide river.
Fiction book (1995) -
The chicken cries came from down behind the house, near the shallow ford that crossed the creek.
Fiction book (1993) -
Go down the road tomorrow until you reach the ford of the Sart.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the immediate area, there were only two natural fords on this creek.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Shivering, I started across the ford, though I knew that death lay up the coulee."
Fiction book (1995) -
I crossed the river on a concrete ford and paused to let the clear water flow under my pickup.
Academic text (2001) -
Well, you can drive through this ford in a place called Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside on the North York Moors.
Blog text (33) -
All went well until I reached the ford at Hatch Creek, which wasn't far from the Bee Goddess's shrine.
Fiction book (1998) -
Recent downpours had swollen the brook till the ford had expanded into a huge pond, lapping the low footbridge.
Fiction book (1997) -
The truck was unable to pass until it reached the ford where the water was shallow.
Synonyms
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A place where two roads or paths meet so people can go across
Compounds
A class of United States Navy aircraft carriers built with new radar, weapons, and power systems
How Crossable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ford comes from an old English word for a shallow place to cross a river, and you can see it in place names like Oxford, which means 'oxen's ford', so a ford today is a shallow spot where people or vehicles can cross.