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Ford   /fɔrd/   Listen
noun
Ford  n.  
1.
A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. "He swam the Esk river where ford there was none."
2.
A stream; a current. "With water of the ford Or of the clouds."


verb
Ford  v. t.  (past & past part. forded; pres. part. fording)  To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. "His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted."





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... who will not behave himself in the herd, and will not live up to the herd law, is expelled; and after that takes place his wicked race is very soon ended by a high- power bullet, about calibre .26. The last one brought to my notice was overtaken by Charles Theobald, State Shikaree of Mysore, in a Ford automobile; and ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... the angel of Peace cannot be heard, peace kite-flying has already begun in Vienna, but Germany is anxious to represent it as unauthorised and improper. Mr. Henry Ford's voyage to Europe on the Oscar II with a strangely assorted group of Pacificists does more credit to his heart than his head, and the conflicting elements in his party have earned for his ship the name of "The Tug of Peace." Anyhow, England ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch
... Lieutenant Ford was dangerously wounded in the shoulder. The bullet cut the artery, and he was bleeding to death when Surgeon-Lieutenant J.H. Hugo came to his aid. The fire was too hot to allow of lights being used. There was no cover of any sort. ...
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill
... the end of it, How fair the well-lov'd land appears; I see September's misty heat Laid like a swooning on the corn; I see the reaping of the wheat, I hear afar the hunter's horn, I see the cattle at the ford, The panting sheep beneath the thorn! The burden of the years is scor'd, The reckoning made, Hodge walks alone, Content, contenting, his own lord, Master of what his pain ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... carefully attended church-judicatories, from which he was seldom absent, and that from a principle of conscience; so that almost no impediment could hinder him in his purposes; for one time going to the presbytery of Kirkudbright, twenty miles distant from Carsphairn, when about to ford the water of Dee, he was told by some that it was impassable, yet he persisted, saying, "I must go through, if the Lord will; I am going about his work."——He entered in, and the strength of the current carried him and his horse beneath the ford; ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie


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