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Answer for the clue "Certain crossing ", 4 letters:
ford

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Ford \Ford\ (f[=o]rd), n. [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r bay, and to E. fare. [root]78. See Fare , v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.] A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam ...

Usage examples of ford.

Brattleboro, whither Akeley drove in his Ford car along the lonely Vermont back roads.

He also heard from Prior Alcock that for a month past, the forest below Malvern Abbey, about the Rhydd ford, had been the haunt of a body of outlaws who had committed numerous depredations of an alarming character.

Some ten minutes later, as the CBA anchorman entered the streets of Larchmont, the Ford Tempo followed discreetly at a distance, stopping well short of the Sloane house which was located on Park Avenue, facing Long Island Sound.

Flipping through her photos Andi found no Volvos or Ford trucks, but she did have shots of the Mustang coming and going--six grainy photos with the vague shape of driver or driver and passenger.

July twelfth Norman Ashkenazi drove the old Ford of the Israeli relocation team from Sousse to Ez-Zahra to tell Sharon Hoyt that it was Bastille Day and they ought to celebrate by having a picnic and going to the beach.

Kreiss nosed his rented Ford 150 van into the truck stop off the Van Dorn Street Beltway exit in Alexandria.

The road from Eastthorpe running westerly and parallel with the river at a distance of about a mile from it sends out at the fourth milestone a byroad to the south, which crosses the river by a stone bridge, and there is no doubt that before the bridge existed there was a ford, and that there was also a chapel hard by where people probably commended their souls to God before taking the water.

I had a doozy the other night about Harrison Ford, a peacock feather, and a bottle of canola oil.

Diane Robards regarded Officers John Carnegie and Leland Ford as wannabes.

Diane and her two acolytes Ford and Carnegie supplied with croissants and coffee.

Cowans Ford had been a river crossing used by the Catawba tribe in the 1600s, and later by the Cherokee.

In the early 1960s the Duke Power Company had dammed the Catawba River at Cowans Ford and created Lake Norman, which stretches almost thirty-four miles.

We had forded the Catawba River and were skirting the northwestern flank of an odd rectangular plateaumaking as rapid a progress as we could, since we were expecting a pursuit of some kind in the absence of an eruptionwhen a terrible earthquake occurred.

That second road ran through flat country and led to the passable fords that crossed the Coa further south.

It was the road that went to the safe fords across the Coa, the road which went home, the road to security, but all that was left to guard it were the nine squares of infantry, a battery of light guns and the cavalry who had survived the fight south of Poco Velha.