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fordless

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

adjective

  1. having no ford.

  2. that cannot be crossed on foot.

    a fordless stream.


Etymology

Origin of fordless

First recorded in 1640–50; ford + -less

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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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

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.

From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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

From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by William Westall

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