fordn.¹

Brit.

/fɔːd/, U.S.

/fɔrd/

Forms: Old English ford, Middle English southern vord, Middle English–1500s fo(o)rde, Middle English furd, forth(e, (Middle English fourde, foorth, Middle English furthe, 1500s furde), 1500s–1600s foord, 1600s foard, Middle English– ford.

Etymology: Old English ford strong masculine = Old Saxon -ford (in place-names), Old High German furt (Middle High German vurt , modern German furt ) < West Germanic *furdu-z < pre-Germanic *pṛtú-s , found in Old Welsh rit , now rhyd ford, Latin portus port n.¹, harbour, < Aryan root *per- , Germanic *fer- , far- , fur- to go, pass: see fare v.¹ The Old Norse fiǫrðr fjord n. ( < *ferþu-z < *pértus) differs in ablaut grade.

1. A shallow place in a river or other water, where a person or animal may cross by wading.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford

fordc893

wath?c1450

wading-place1598

wathstead1615

ford-way1721

waterway1970

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. xii. §2 Neh þæm forda þe mon hæt Welengaford.

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxii. 22 He..oferfor þone ford.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10059 Arður..for-stod heom þene uord [c1300 Otho ford].

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 187 Passage non he nam, þe forthes wer withsette.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. ii. 7 Thei..folweden hem bi the weye that ledith to the foordis of Jordan.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvi. 115 Ane met þame in þe Forde, Ðat prewaly..Led þame wp by þe Wattyr syne.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. x. E At Machmas shal he muster his hooste, and go ouer y^e foorde.

1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 27 The fords must have been impassable in those floods.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 8 Her future Lord Was drown'd in passing thro' the ford .

1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 16 749/1 The guide had strayed off the ford, and I was foundering in a quicksand.

Proverb.1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.iij^v Let vs take the forde as we finde it.1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. ciii. 262 I praise and commend the ford (as we use to speak) as I find it.

†2. (a) A tract of shallow water. (b) Used (like Latin vadum) for: The sea (rare). (c) poetic. A stream, current (primarily with reference to passage). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place

shoal839

shoala1400

bank?1473

undeep1513

shelf1545

flat1550

vadea1552

ford1563

shallow1571

shoaling1574

ebbs1577

shelve1582

bridge1624

ballow1677

shamble1769

sharp1776

poling ground1901

sea-shoal1903

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river

floodc825

streamc875

eaeOE

water streamOE

flumec1175

fleamc1300

riverc1300

currentc1380

reea1500

ford1563

fluent1598

draught1601

nymph1605

amnic1623

flux1637

nullah1656

R1692

currency1758

silent highway1841

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun]

currentc1380

veina1500

ford1563

tide1585

vein1600

draught1601

currency1758

stream-currenta1830

palaeocurrent1955

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 56^v Brookes, boornes, or fordes, be small streames of water, that ronne in a channell.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 57 Ryuers are caused by the meatynge..of many broocks & fordes.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 76 Their ship from land with Ores was haled on the foord.

a1599 E. Spenser (Webster 1864) With water of the ford Or of the clouds, to moisten their roots dry.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 24 Boggie..grounds are..fastened and firmed by frequent ouer-flowing them with Fords or Land-flouds.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xliv. 105 A deep Foord wherin an Elephant might swimm.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B5 They live in the deep sea, and when they bring forth, they goe to foords & shores.

a1780 Ball. Johnie Cock iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cxiv. 3/1 And for a drop of thy heart's bluid, They wad ride the fords of hell.

3. attributive, as ford-way.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford

fordc893

wath?c1450

wading-place1598

wathstead1615

ford-way1721

waterway1970

1721 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 223 Between Deerfield and Northfield..20 rods west of the fordway.

1858 I. F. Redfield Law Railways (1869) I. 231 Where a ford-way was destroyed, by the erection of a dam across a river.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Fordn.²

Brit.

/fɔːd/, U.S.

/fɔrd/

Etymology: < the name of Henry Ford (1863–1947), U.S. manufacturer of motor vehicles.

Used to designate vehicles produced by the company founded by Henry Ford. Also figurative (see quots. 1964, 1968).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model

Olds1907

Model T1909

Ford1914

Rolls1915

Merc1930

T-model1932

beetle1958

T-bird1958

VW1958

Mini1959

Moke1959

deux-chevaux1962

Mini-Moke1962

Liftback1973

Beemer1978

Roller1979

foreign2010

1914 Scotsman 14 Oct. 12/1 Ford Chassis £105.

1918 Automobile Engineer Mar. 85/2 The minimum-priced car, represented by the Ford.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 105/2 It is the sort of road that even a Ford would hesitate to tackle.

1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 48 Like the starting of a Ford.

1927 A. Huxley Let. 8 Oct. (1969) 292 I don't know whether one's interests are better looked after by an individual or a Ford factory.

1937 D. Aldis Time at Her Heels i. 10 They kept the Ford out in the street in front of the house. It worked all right if they remembered to get it filled with anti-freeze.

1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties vi. 83 She saw a Ford van in the window.

1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 100 The Stanley-type plane may be described..as the Ford of woodworking tools.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 87 Ford, a best-seller, a winner. A line which continues from season to season.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fordv.

Brit.

/fɔːd/, U.S.

/fɔrd/

Etymology: < ford n.¹

a. transitive. To cross (water) by means of a ford; to wade through.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > cross or pass over > by a ford

ford1614

traject1624

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §6. 43 Adams shinne-bones must haue contained a thousand fadome..if he had foorded the Ocean.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 535 His Horse..should at the same time Ford the Severn..and so joyn with his Foot.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 186 They found the River so shallow, that they easily forded it.

1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxx. 119 As no mention is made of a bridge, we are to presume that they forded the river.

1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 780/1 An old woman in a cart is fording the brook.

figurative.a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 299 The truth at last he foorded.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 52 His last Section which is no deepe one, remains only to be foarded.1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother i. i This Advantage may at least be made To ford his Shallow Soul.

b. causatively.

ΚΠ

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. xi. 167 God intended to Ford them [sc. the Israelites] over the Sea.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 88 You can hardly imagine what a difference there is in fording this herd, between a cool cloudy day and a clear hot one.

a. intransitive. To cross (over) by means of a ford.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel across or beyond > a ford

ford1675

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > through liquid or mud

wadec1220

waselc1394

ford1675

slunk1728

slop1783

plodge1787

spatter1806

slutch1821

slumper1829

squelch1849

slush1853

splodge1896

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 90 You ford over the Owse.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 2 In some places too shallow for Boats, and in others too deep to ford over.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature III. 93 She durst not venture to put her feet into it for the purpose of fording over.

1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 727 Some of their detachments forded both on the right and left of the Spaniards' position.

b. To wade. rare.

ΚΠ

1748 Voy. Disc. I. 93 Goslings in the londs, amongst which our People had the greatest Success, as they could ford into the Water, and reach them with Cutlashes.

figurative.1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 58 In the New Testament there are shallows where the lamb may ford, and depths where the elephant must swim.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c893

n.²1914

v.1614

单词	ford
释义	fordn.¹ Brit. /fɔːd/, U.S. /fɔrd/ Forms: Old English ford, Middle English southern vord, Middle English–1500s fo(o)rde, Middle English furd, forth(e, (Middle English fourde, foorth, Middle English furthe, 1500s furde), 1500s–1600s foord, 1600s foard, Middle English– ford. Etymology: Old English ford strong masculine = Old Saxon -ford (in place-names), Old High German furt (Middle High German vurt , modern German furt ) < West Germanic furdu-z < pre-Germanic pṛtú-s , found in Old Welsh rit , now rhyd ford, Latin portus port n.¹, harbour, < Aryan root per- , Germanic fer- , far- , fur- to go, pass: see fare v.¹ The Old Norse fiǫrðr fjord n. ( < ferþu-z < pértus) differs in ablaut grade. 1. A shallow place in a river or other water, where a person or animal may cross by wading. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford fordc893 wath?c1450 wading-place1598 wathstead1615 ford-way1721 waterway1970 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. v. xii. §2 Neh þæm forda þe mon hæt Welengaford. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxii. 22 He..oferfor þone ford. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10059 Arður..for-stod heom þene uord [c1300 Otho ford]. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 187 Passage non he nam, þe forthes wer withsette. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. ii. 7 Thei..folweden hem bi the weye that ledith to the foordis of Jordan. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvi. 115 Ane met þame in þe Forde, Ðat prewaly..Led þame wp by þe Wattyr syne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. x. E At Machmas shal he muster his hooste, and go ouer y^e foorde. 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 27 The fords must have been impassable in those floods. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 8 Her future Lord Was drown'd in passing thro' the ford . View more context for this quotation 1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 16 749/1 The guide had strayed off the ford, and I was foundering in a quicksand. Proverb.1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.iij^v Let vs take the forde as we finde it.1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. ciii. 262 I praise and commend the ford (as we use to speak) as I find it. †2. (a) A tract of shallow water. (b) Used (like Latin vadum) for: The sea (rare). (c) poetic. A stream, current (primarily with reference to passage). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place shoal839 shoala1400 bank?1473 undeep1513 shelf1545 flat1550 vadea1552 ford1563 shallow1571 shoaling1574 ebbs1577 shelve1582 bridge1624 ballow1677 shamble1769 sharp1776 poling ground1901 sea-shoal1903 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river floodc825 streamc875 eaeOE water streamOE flumec1175 fleamc1300 riverc1300 currentc1380 reea1500 ford1563 fluent1598 draught1601 nymph1605 amnic1623 flux1637 nullah1656 R1692 currency1758 silent highway1841 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] currentc1380 veina1500 ford1563 tide1585 vein1600 draught1601 currency1758 stream-currenta1830 palaeocurrent1955 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 56^v Brookes, boornes, or fordes, be small streames of water, that ronne in a channell. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 57 Ryuers are caused by the meatynge..of many broocks & fordes. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 76 Their ship from land with Ores was haled on the foord. a1599 E. Spenser (Webster 1864) With water of the ford Or of the clouds, to moisten their roots dry. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 24 Boggie..grounds are..fastened and firmed by frequent ouer-flowing them with Fords or Land-flouds. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xliv. 105 A deep Foord wherin an Elephant might swimm. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B5 They live in the deep sea, and when they bring forth, they goe to foords & shores. a1780 Ball. Johnie Cock iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cxiv. 3/1 And for a drop of thy heart's bluid, They wad ride the fords of hell. 3. attributive, as ford-way. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford fordc893 wath?c1450 wading-place1598 wathstead1615 ford-way1721 waterway1970 1721 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 223 Between Deerfield and Northfield..20 rods west of the fordway. 1858 I. F. Redfield Law Railways (1869) I. 231 Where a ford-way was destroyed, by the erection of a dam across a river. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Fordn.² Brit. /fɔːd/, U.S. /fɔrd/ Etymology: < the name of Henry Ford (1863–1947), U.S. manufacturer of motor vehicles. Used to designate vehicles produced by the company founded by Henry Ford. Also figurative (see quots. 1964, 1968). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model Olds1907 Model T1909 Ford1914 Rolls1915 Merc1930 T-model1932 beetle1958 T-bird1958 VW1958 Mini1959 Moke1959 deux-chevaux1962 Mini-Moke1962 Liftback1973 Beemer1978 Roller1979 foreign2010 1914 Scotsman 14 Oct. 12/1 Ford Chassis £105. 1918 Automobile Engineer Mar. 85/2 The minimum-priced car, represented by the Ford. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 105/2 It is the sort of road that even a Ford would hesitate to tackle. 1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 48 Like the starting of a Ford. 1927 A. Huxley Let. 8 Oct. (1969) 292 I don't know whether one's interests are better looked after by an individual or a Ford factory. 1937 D. Aldis Time at Her Heels i. 10 They kept the Ford out in the street in front of the house. It worked all right if they remembered to get it filled with anti-freeze. 1958 B. Nichols Sweet & Twenties vi. 83 She saw a Ford van in the window. 1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 100 The Stanley-type plane may be described..as the Ford of woodworking tools. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 87 Ford, a best-seller, a winner. A line which continues from season to season. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fordv. Brit. /fɔːd/, U.S. /fɔrd/ Etymology: < ford n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To cross (water) by means of a ford; to wade through. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > cross or pass over > by a ford ford1614 traject1624 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §6. 43 Adams shinne-bones must haue contained a thousand fadome..if he had foorded the Ocean. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 535 His Horse..should at the same time Ford the Severn..and so joyn with his Foot. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 186 They found the River so shallow, that they easily forded it. 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxx. 119 As no mention is made of a bridge, we are to presume that they forded the river. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 780/1 An old woman in a cart is fording the brook. figurative.a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 299 The truth at last he foorded.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 52 His last Section which is no deepe one, remains only to be foarded.1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother i. i This Advantage may at least be made To ford his Shallow Soul. b. causatively. ΚΠ 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. xi. 167 God intended to Ford them [sc. the Israelites] over the Sea. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 88 You can hardly imagine what a difference there is in fording this herd, between a cool cloudy day and a clear hot one. 2. a. intransitive. To cross (over) by means of a ford. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel across or beyond > a ford ford1675 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > through liquid or mud wadec1220 waselc1394 ford1675 slunk1728 slop1783 plodge1787 spatter1806 slutch1821 slumper1829 squelch1849 slush1853 splodge1896 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 90 You ford over the Owse. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 2 In some places too shallow for Boats, and in others too deep to ford over. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature III. 93 She durst not venture to put her feet into it for the purpose of fording over. 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 727 Some of their detachments forded both on the right and left of the Spaniards' position. b. To wade. rare. ΚΠ 1748 Voy. Disc. I. 93 Goslings in the londs, amongst which our People had the greatest Success, as they could ford into the Water, and reach them with Cutlashes. figurative.1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 58 In the New Testament there are shallows where the lamb may ford, and depths where the elephant must swim. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c893n.²1914v.1614
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