With water of the ford Or of the clouds.
Spenser.
Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.
Dryden.
Ford, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fording.] To pass or
cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted.
Milton.
Ford"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being forded. -- Ford"a*ble*ness, n.
Ford"less, a. Without a ford.
A deep and fordless river.
Mallock.
For*do" (?), v. t. [OE. fordon, AS. ford&?;n; pref. for- + d&?;n to do.
See For-, and Do, v. i.] 1. To destroy; to undo; to ruin. [Obs.]
This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
Shak.