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Webster 1913 Edition


Fordless

Ford′less

,
Adj.
Without a ford.
A deep and
fordless
river.
Mallock.

Definition 2024


fordless

fordless

English

Adjective

fordless (not comparable)

  1. Without a ford.
    • William Hurrell Mallock
      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 []
    • 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.