fording

fording is the present participle and gerund of ford.

Noun

fording (plural fordings)

The act by which something is forded.
- By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River
Fording place
- There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69

ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)

To cross a stream by walking through it.
- He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
(broadly) To traverse any precarious environment.
- I spent several days fording through dense jungle.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport

plural	fordings

What does fording mean?: Fording means the act by which something is forded.
What is fording the present participle and gerund of?: Fording is the present participle and gerund of ford.
What part of speech is fording?: Fording is a noun.
What is the plural of fording?: The plural of fording is fordings.

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