fordable

UK: /ˈfɔːdəbl/

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ford /fɔrd/   n. [countable]

1. a place where a river can be crossed by wading.

v. [~ + object]

2. to cross (a river, stream, etc.) at a ford:
   The wagons managed to ford the stream.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ford  (fôrd, fōrd), n. 

1. a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.

v.t. 

2. to cross (a river, stream, etc.) at a ford.

• bef. 900; Middle English (noun, nominal), Old English; cognate with Old Frisian forda, German Furt; akin to Old Norse fjǫrthr, fare, port¹

ford′a•ble, adj. 

Ford  (fôrd, fōrd), n. 

Ford Mad•ox  (mad′əks), (Ford Madox Hueffer), 1873–1939, English novelist, poet, critic, and editor.
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