ford
noun
a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
unfordable
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a word derived from
ford.
Example Sentences
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Snow and rain have raised the normally placid Jordan River to unfordable levels.
From Time Magazine Archive
He reports that his senses were so distorted that the smallest stream seemed a wide and unfordable sea, as though "my eyes were turned in."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bong-chu here is a large river with a very great flow of water, and quite unfordable.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Lakes, pools, morasses, and swamps, are frequent; the rivers of little fall have muddy and miry beds, which on that account become unfordable during the rains.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
To cross an unfordable river in the face of a vastly superior enemy, at a distance of 150 miles from all support, would, he felt, be a most hazardous undertaking.
From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson
