0 past simple and past participle of ford
1 to cross a river, where it is not deep, on foot or in a vehicle
From here the hunters could take caribou when they forded the wetlands between eskers.
One day they came to a river which could not be bridged or forded.
The river was wide on both sides, but could be forded.
It can only be forded by foot at low tide.
There is evidence that the river was forded here before a bridge was built.
The mirror may be understood as a quality of the mindstream that denotes perceiving experience as it is without obscuration forded by "klesha", etc.
Most creeks are forded by wading, although sometimes the water can be waist deep even at low tide.
On this path, a large water fall, which drops by 60 m into a sacred pool, is forded over by a bridge.