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Ford   /fɔrd/   Listen
Ford

noun
1.
United States film maker (1896-1973).  Synonym: John Ford.
2.
Grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987).  Synonym: Henry Ford II.
3.
Son of Henry Ford (1893-1943).  Synonym: Edsel Bryant Ford.
4.
English writer and editor (1873-1939).  Synonyms: Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Ford.
5.
38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-).  Synonyms: Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Ford.
6.
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947).  Synonym: Henry Ford.
7.
A shallow area in a stream that can be forded.  Synonym: crossing.
8.
The act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse.  Synonym: fording.
verb
(past & past part. forded; pres. part. fording)
1.
Cross a river where it's shallow.



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... on the second day that Jake's crew was not taking advantage of every car spotted. One of them had been a "natural" to Jimmy's way of thinking. He asked Jake about it: "Why didn't you take the sea-green Ford in front ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... most generous cooperation from the leaders of the Republican Party in the Congress of the United States, Senator Dirksen and Congressman Gerald Ford, the ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... the English peerage. It is borne by a descendant of Charles Bennet, second Lord of Ossulston, upon whom it was conferred by George I. in 1714, after he had married the daughter and heiress of Ford, Lord Grey of Wark, Earl of Tankerville. One of the family of this Lord Grey, Sir John Grey, Knight, Captain of Maunt, in Normandy, had originally been rewarded with the title by King Henry V. for his eminent ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
... property carried off. Wearied already with their long march, they set off at once in pursuit of the spoilers, who had had a long start of them. When they reached the brook Besor, two hundred of them were too weary and footsore to ford it, and so had to be left behind. But these were not useless, for the heavy baggage was left in their charge, and the other four hundred were thus enabled to march more lightly, and therefore more ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... which would almost have sufficed for a man's daily food. The culture of maize is entirely neglected, and the horses and cows have entirely disappeared. Near the raudal, a part of the village still bears the name of Passo del ganado (ford of the cattle), while the descendants of those very Indians whom the Jesuits had assembled in a mission, speak of horned cattle as of animals of a race now lost. In going up the Orinoco, toward San Carlos del Rio Negro, we saw the last ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt


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