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Ford vs Gord - What's the difference?

ford | gord |

As a verb ford

is .

As a proper noun gord is

a diminutive of the male given name gordon.

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.

    • gord

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gourd

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
    (Webster 1913) ----