Crossword clues for forded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ford \Ford\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fording.] To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to
be forted.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: ford)
Usage examples of "forded".
Cautiously he eased free of the brush, forded the stream, and fell into the steady lope that he used to cover ground.
The river could here be forded, though the bottom was exceedingly rough.
There were rivers to be crossed, which could only be forded by ascending the banks through weary leagues of wilderness.
Two days passed and part of another ere they forded the River Rothro on the edge of the Eldwood forest.
Travelling among the massive boles of the great trees, the following day they forded the Quadrill and later the River Cellener to come at last unto the Coronhall in Wood's-heart, the Elvenholt central to the great forest of Darda Galion.
Days after, they forded swollen streams flowing down from the mountains above.
When she had detected him smiling at her as the longhorns forded the Platte, she knew that he would seek her out.
In which expectation they were much aided, from the circumstance that the Loire had swollen to such a degree from the melting of the snows, that it did not seem capable of being forded at all.
For as our camp, as already mentioned, was pitched between two rivers, the Segre and Cinca, and as neither of these could be forded for the space of thirty miles, they were all of necessity confined within these narrow limits.
Magda could see that she was itching to get out there and show the men how a well-organized caravan forded a river.
They had, she reflected, forded the Kadarin more easily than if they had waited for the ferry, which was now caught in one of the eddies of the ford, while the ferryman and his sons, swearing and shouting, were trying to pole it free.
Kahteney appeared oblivious, or careless, but the Commacht was relieved when they forded the stream and came amongst the lodges of his own clan.
They passed through the surrounding lodges and forded the stream, traversing the Commacht camp, where he waved them back.
Somehow, although it still rained where they crouched, the ford lay full in the moonlight, and Ivar could see that the front of rain quite simply ceased about twenty paces in front of a semicircle of Lions whose locked shields made a barrier behind which horsemen and infantry forded the river to the safety of the north shore.