Ford meaning

Noun: ford

Pronunciation: (fawrd)

Ford meaning:

• The shallow of a river or stream where it can be crossed without a bridge .
• Act of crossing a river by wading (wading=walking with your feet in shallow water ) or on a horse or in a car.

Pronunciation: (for-ding)

Fording meaning: Act of crossing a river by wading or on a horse or in a car.

Quotations: Benjamin Franklin – Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Kabir – There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

Malagasy Proverb – If you ford the river in a crowd, the crocodiles won’t get you.

Mike Giovinazzo – So far, I’ve been very pleased with the pitching because of other than rivers and ford, we really didn’t know what we were going to get. Defensively, we’re really solid and the offense has been productive up to now.

Sample sentences:

1. The stream is fordable, so we need not worry.
2. Since there is no bridge to cross,we have to see where the river is fordable.
3. I’m not sure they can move away from ford fast enough.
4. I have been fording the rivers, sleeping under the stars and cooking my food.
5. Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don’t lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.
6. We need to find a ford and cross the river to win this treasure hunt contest.
7. The company has been providing a coach service to ford at the lower end of the lake.
8. I love natural resting places like a ford, beautiful valley leading to great mountain ranges, the foot of a steep ascent on a road.
9. We had to walk for hours since we had to go round by the ford. Huntsmen were walking in front of us and they were carrying lanterns.
10. We have decided to swim and drown although there was a ford after a mile.