After fording, the vehicle's wheel bearings must be repacked with new lubricants.
It was also intended for water obstacle fording operations and naval infantry landings.
In periods of high water some crossings require fording.
The inhabitants of marshy or flooded areas sometimes use stilts for practical purposes, such as working in swamps or fording swollen rivers.
The dragoons entered the river; floundering about, partly fording, partly swimming, in some way they got through.
The settlement was a stop-over point before or after fording the river (which is some 60 70 metres wide at that point).
The team was attacked when they stopped after fording a river.
Legend says that any person failing to confess his sins before fording the river will be carried away by the water spirits.
