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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)
- 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.
- William Hurrell Mallock