Fordname/fɔːd/

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

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  A male given name transferred from the surname.

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Fordnoun/fɔːd/

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  A car, truck, tractor, or other vehicle of this make.

  • Their grandparents always drove Fords.
  • They have a Ford car now, and she don't seem so far away from me as she used to.

fordnoun/fɔːd/

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  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.
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  A stream; a current.

  • With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
  • Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

fordverb/fɔːd/

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  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.
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  To traverse any precarious environment.

  • I spent several days fording through dense jungle.
  • I use my ample shoulders to ford through the crowd, ignoring a curse here, smothering boos here and there, and generally standing my ground in the face of the disapprovals of those I shove.