Definitions
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- adjective Without a ford.
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- adjective Without a
ford .
Etymologies
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ford + -less
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Examples
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Nothing -- neither sloughs, nor bogs, nor pathless forests, nor fordless rivers, could check the advancing tide of the marching throng; and one morning, from every point of the compass, lo! they took possession of
The Cathedral 1877
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Pierce the known thicket, breast the fordless tide,
The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783
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