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Definition of Fordless
1. a. Without a ford.
Definition of Fordless
1. Adjective. Without a ford. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fordless
1. unable to be forded [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fordless
Literary usage of Fordless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society: June 1925, Volume Xxvi, Number 2 by Oregon Historical Society (1901)
"We have called the routes of travel bridge- less (and often fordless), look as
to how much this implies : Suppose our train to have reached what was at ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1853)
"... of which we all must be in some sort the subjects until mortality shall be
swallowed up of life; until the waters of the last fordless river cease to ..."
3. American History and Its Geographic Conditions by Ellen Churchill Semple (1903)
"... because the Ohio River along its northern border, bridgeless and almost
fordless, presented the one strong defensible line in the Mississippi valley. ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"... defending each defile, to hold inviolate some dread, forbidden secret; the
weird wastes of wilderness beyond; the fordless stream; the yawning chasm; ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the Sabbath is calm and involved in delusive mists, and on the other days of
the week runs with a fierce and fordless current. ..."
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