fordless

American  

[fawrd-lis, fohrd-] / ˈfɔrd lɪs, ˈfoʊrd- /

adjective

1. having no ford.

2. that cannot be crossed on foot.

   a fordless stream.

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Etymology

Origin of fordless

First recorded in 1640–50; ford + -less

Example Sentences

Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it, or else that it will dry up of itself.

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Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide,— The soul's blue abysses our homesteads divide: Down through the still river they deepen forever, Like the skies it reflects from above.

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Nothing—neither sloughs, nor bogs, nor pathless forests, nor fordless rivers, could check the advancing tide of the marching throng; and one morning, from every point of the compass, lo! they took possession of Chartres.

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It is a country of impenetrable forests, fordless rivers, and unclimbable mountains.

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Fly with the faithful youth, his steps to guide, Pierce the known thicket, breast the fordless tide, Illude the scout, avoid the ambush'd line, And lead him safely to his friends and thine; For thine shall be his friends, his heart, his name; His camp shall shout, his nation boast thy fame.

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