ford
Wade across here
A ford is a shallow place in a river or stream where you can cross on foot, by horse, or in a vehicle without needing a bridge or boat.
Many town names ending in -ford (Oxford, Bradford, Hartford) mark ancient crossing points.
To ford is to cross water at such a place: We forded the creek where it ran shallowest. (Capitalized Ford is the automaker or a surname.)
wade
Walk through impeding substance
brook · shallows · sandbar · streambed · gravel · current · ripple · bank · waterway · passage
- crossingspedestrian crossing, cross, railroad crossing, river crossing, border crossing
- battle terrainhigh ground, choke point, chokepoint, ridge, hill
- shallow waterknee deep, waist deep, puddle, tide pool, shoal
- place wordstown, ville, burg, borough, shire
- shallowsshoal, sandbar, sandbank, shallow, shallows
- water crossingsfootbridge, rope bridge, stepping stones, pontoon, floating bridge
water crossing depth/traversability
fordunfordable
Too deep to wade
deep · deep water · depth · rapids · the deep
- John FordProlific Western film director
- Ford ExpeditionFull-size sport utility vehicle
- Ford's TheatreHistoric Washington playhouse
- Harrison Ford
- Henry FordAmerican automaker, early 1900s
- Ford F-150Full-size American pickup truck
afford, affordable, oxford, afforded, affording, affords, fords, unaffordable, forded