forder

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See also: förder

English

Etymology

ford +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

forder (plural forders)

  1. One who fords (a stream, river, etc.)
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, [1]
      Hundreds of snakes had sought refuge in it, and as many of them remained under water, the forders were not able to see them until they almost came in contact with the reptiles.
    • 1991, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Part II, Settings xiii, p. 67,
      Re-enter this as the adult of solitude,
      The silence-forder and the definite
      Presence you sensed withdrawing first time round.

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German

Verb

forder

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of fordern.
  2. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of fordern.