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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fordless en · ADJ

Etymology

From ford + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a ford.
    • Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […] 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:
    • 2006, Maha-bhárata, Book 7, Volume 1, Clay Sanskrit Library, edited and translated by Vaughan Pilikian, New York University Press, p. 185, Drona poured forth a river of death. […] Not fish but swords swam in its fordless waters, and elephants and horses were where sharks might have been.