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Ford vs Bord - What's the difference?

ford | bord |

As a verb ford

is .

As a noun bord is

a birth (the event), childbirth, delivery.

ford

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
  • A stream; a current.
  • * Spenser
    • With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
  • * Dryden
    • Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cross a stream using a ford.

    • bord

    English

    Etymology 1

    See board.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *:
  • *:At Alisaundre he was, whan it was wonne. / Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord [table] bigonne / Aboven alle nacions in Pruce;

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
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