Definition of "fording" []

• Present participle of ford. (verb)

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• "We had, however, lost some time in fording the stream, and we had but the one glimpse of him as the trail curved."
• "On the 2d we succeeded, after considerable difficulty, in fording it, still deep and rapid, even at its lowest stage, and left it, passing through a large prairie, and finally halted at the entrance of"
• "We found no little difficulty in fording it, in consequence of the quick sands of which its bed is composed, giving way so readily beneath the pressure of our feet."