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📚 noun • entry_id 6164

ford

/fɔːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vado
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.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 6165

ford

/fɔːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vadear
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…
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