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
This stream, though narrow, was deep and unfordable.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
The palace walls, some sixty yards from the Residency, and separated from it by an unfordable moat, were loop-holed, and soon a fierce fire was opened on the attackers.
From Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines by Henry Charles Moore
A small force of our infantry and cavalry were surrounded by the enemy on the south bank of the Shenandoah River, which was so high as to be unfordable.
From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier
