fording

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ

Verb

fording

  1. present participle of ford

Noun

fording (plural fordings)

  1. The act by which something is forded.
    • 1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River
      By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
  2. Fording place
    • 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, 1918, p. 69,
      There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

Old Irish

Etymology

From for- + dingid.

Verb

for·ding

  1. to crush, to oppress

Inflection

References

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