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ford, shallow place in a body of water, especially a river, that may be crossed by wading. Around the crossings habitually forded, cities sprang up; hence fords came to be the sites of numerous river towns. They have been of particular importance in migrations and in the deployment of armies in campaigns and have therefore been frequently fortified. Ford assumes pseudonym to uncover adulterer. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor] See : Disguise |
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| Such was the position of affairs at Devil's Ford on the 13th of August, 1860. A hundred moonlit miles away the Chiang crept to sea; O keeper of my heart, I came by Chiang's ford to thee. "Now, good uncle," quoth Will Scarlet at last, when they had walked for a long time beside this sweet, bright river, "just beyond yon bend ahead of us is a shallow ford which in no place is deeper than thy mid-thigh, and upon the other side of the stream is a certain little hermitage hidden amidst the bosky tangle of the thickets wherein dwelleth the Friar of Fountain Dale. |
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