fordless

[ fawrd-lis, fohrd- ]

adjective

1. having no ford.
2. that cannot be crossed on foot:

   a fordless stream.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fordless¹

First recorded in 1640–50; ford + -less

Example Sentences

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, or else that it will dry up of itself.

From Project Gutenberg

Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide,— The soul's blue abysses our homesteads divide: Down through the still river they deepen forever, Like the skies it reflects from above.

From Project Gutenberg

In thy way wax streams fordless, and choked passes pathless, Fever lurks in the valley, and plague passeth over The sand of the plain, and with venom and fury Fulfilled are the woods that thou needs must wend through: In the hollow of the mountains the wind is a-storing Till the keel that shall carry thee hoisteth her sail; War is crouching unseen round the lands thou shalt come to, With thy sword cast away and thy cunning forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing—neither sloughs, nor bogs, nor pathless forests, nor fordless rivers, could check the advancing tide of the marching throng; and one morning, from every point of the compass, lo! they took possession of Chartres.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a country of impenetrable forests, fordless rivers, and unclimbable mountains.

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