Fording is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• FORD, to wade across
• (of a person or vehicle) cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place.
NOUN:
• a shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across.
• the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cross by wading

Words related to FORDING

ford8 forded11 fords9

Words that contain FORDING

affording17

How to use FORDING in a sentence

• They had reached the end of the glade and were contemplating fording the brook when like a bolt from the blue discovery came upon them.
• Fording the stream, we dismounted among the young timber and bushes lining the stream, and ate lunch.
• Some of these roads may cross streams too deep for fording, so bridges must be provided.
• If the bottom of the little stream had been soft and sticky, or filled with boulders, fording would have been out of the question.
• After fording the stream, however, I found that the trail I had followed continued forward in the same direction, leaving this rude settlement on the left.
• Driftwood and good sized logs were floating by on a current so strong that all hope of fording it vanished even before its depth was measured.
• Soon after fording the river we discovered some evidence that trappers had long ago visited this region.
• At Fort Laramie we crossed the Platte river by fording.
• As he raised his face, one could see then that he was blind, and the accident that had happened to him, in fording the street.
• From that moment he took charge, and led them along the Greenwich Road through the woods, skirting the swamps, fording the rivers, to Harlem, to safety and to eventual victory.
• The fording of the Arkansas River had been reached.
• To facilitate this fording, Kit Carson crossed and recrossed the stream at least twenty times.
• We had no difficulty in fording the Guaynopa Creek near its junction with the Aros River, and selected a camping place on a terrace 200 feet above it.
• A cloud of dust moved with them, showed their coming far away as they wheeled downward at Grand Island, hid their departure as they doubled up for the fording of the Platte.
• Their sandals were wet from fording the river, but they hardly noticed it, so relieved were they to be once again in open country.
• The lead cattle were then nearly a mile away, and galloping off to overtake the point, I left the party watching the saddle horses, which were then fording in our rear.
• In fording the river to breakfast, my outfit agreed that there had been no perceptible change in the stage of water overnight, which quickened our desire to move at once.
• Although not difficult, guide and mule are advisable, if for nothing else than to assist in fording the streams.
• He laughed at the idea of fording the Potomac, declaring that no living man or horse could stand, much less swim, in the stream.
• It was an easy journey, except when they came to rivers, some of which were too deep for fording, but Ross had made provision for them.
• The river was low, so that it was necessary to watch several places where fording was possible.
• Some three miles farther, on fording a stream, we passed from Bontok into Kalinga, and were met by Mr.
• But, fortunately, nothing happened, and we at last got down to the level of the river again, only to find it half in flood and fording out of the question.
• We went west, and northwest, and north, fording streams, taking short cuts across fields, hurrying on and on.
• In three-and-a-half days they had covered over sixty miles, crossing two mountain ranges, and fording the Potomac.
• They could see that every stream they crossed was far above its normal mark, and the last hope that they might find the Potomac low enough for fording disappeared.
• Word had come that a part of the army was already fording the river, near Williamsport, but this bridge near Falling Waters was the most important point.
• We cut them into small bunches, and in fording and refording a whole afternoon was spent in the water.
• You can hardly imagine what a difference there is, in fording this herd, between a cool, cloudy day and a clear, hot one.
• Their advance was much delayed, resulting in frequent halts, presumably to drop their blanket rolls and due to the natural delay in fording a stream.
• There were tales of men fording rivers who were suddenly overwhelmed by terrific walls of water which rushed down from the higher mountains in masses four and eight feet high.
• I was all day and half the night going and coming, and fording the Grasse took me stirrups under.
• Then the pack train, fording the stream, attacked the sudden ascent, and bade adieu to such civilization as the coast afforded.
• The Australian mounted troops did not halt at the Steelpoort, but, fording the river, pushed on to Magnet Heights, which they occupied the same night.
• Lewis took the whole sixteen across the Conewago, they fording the river and carrying the fugitives across on their horses.
• Schreiner to spend the night with us, and this he did after fording with some difficulty the swift-running river.

Similar words containing FORD without suffix ing

ford8 fordo9 fords9 afford13 forded11 fordid11 oxford17 affords14 fordoes11 fordone11 oxfords18 telford11 afforded16 fordable14 fordless12 fordoing13 fordonne12 telfords12 affording17 affordable19 affordably22 rutherford17 unfordable16 rutherfords18 unaffordable21 unaffordably24 affordability25 rutherfordium22 rutherfordiums23 affordabilities24

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