Brook vs Ford - What's the difference?
brook | ford |
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
* Sir Walter Scott
A stream; a current.
* Spenser
* Dryden
As a proper noun brook
is for someone living by a brook .As a verb ford is
.brook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* beck * burn * coulee * creek * streamford
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
- With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
- Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford .