ford

UK /fɔːd/ US /fɔɹd/

name 5noun 3verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, educated, other, right, rusty

She drove her rusty ford across the shallow river without any trouble.

VERB + FORD

borrow, buy, call, drives, pass, spoke, training, war

My uncle drives a Ford pickup truck to work every single day.

FORD + NOUN

car, hairstylists, less, none, politics, truck, yours

He drove his old truck across the shallow ford without any trouble.

PREP.

across, after, down, up

The soldiers waded across the ford to reach the other side of the river.

ADV.

poorly

The old bridge was damaged, so we had to ford the river poorly equipped for the task.

Definitions

noun

A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.

A stream; a current.

With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.

Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

verb

To cross a stream by walking through it.

He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.

Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.

name

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.

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Synonyms

noun — the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car

fording

noun — a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

crossing

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.

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With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.

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Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

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He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.

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Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.

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