1809 C. A. Elton tr. Hesiod 190 Thy feet the river-ford essay.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lvii, in (1824) 314 He right down to the river-ford had driven.
1995 J. Shreeve (1996) xii. 338 The Cro-Magnons did not have to massacre the Neandertal groups they came across, or chase them away from river fords or flint outcrops.