fording

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English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fording

  1. present participle and gerund of ford

Noun

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fording (plural fordings)

  1. The act by which something is forded.
    • 1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River:
      By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
  2. Fording place
    • 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering[1], New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69:
      There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From for- +‎ dingid.

Verb

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for·ding

  1. to crush, to oppress

Inflection

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