Crossword clues for fordable
fordable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fordable \Ford"a*ble\, a. Capable of being forded. -- Ford"a*ble*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from ford (v.) + -able.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a body of water English) Able to be forded.
WordNet
adj. shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle; "the stream was fordable"
Usage examples of "fordable".
The remaining side was bordered by the Meole brook, no mean water hemming the gardens, but fordable or swimmable.
The Meole brook, where it bordered the abbey fields and gardens, was fordable except in flood-time, provided a man knew it well, and Cadfael knew it perfectly.
Meole brook, no mean water hemming the gardens, but fordable or swimmable.
Colonel Winchester sent divisions of scouts up and down the stream, and, both returning after a while, reported that the river was not fordable anywhere.
As they had foreseen, the river had sunk so much that it was fordable now at many points.
The river had appeared to be fordable to her scouts, but she had no solid numbers on depth or best crossing spots.
XV GRIM'S DIKE JHLJh country north of Hefenfelthe was rich and sweet, as green as any land Stronghand had ever seen, laced with fordable rivers and manifold streams, and so gentle that it placed few obstacles in the path of his army.
She wasn't sure if it was fordable, but she was almost halfway and didn't want to give up.
It was normally a shallow, wide, fordable part of the river -- one of the reasons the reindeer had instinctively chosen the place to cross -- but the rain had raised the water level.
Mike watched him for a moment and then got back in the Expedition, driving down to where there was a barely fordable point and crossing the stream.
It was wide and shallow, easily fordable, instead of the mountain torrent they had crossed on the hillside.