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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 ye 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.iijv 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.
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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. 56v 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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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