Ford vs Sord - What's the difference?
ford | sord |
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 nouns the difference between ford and sord
is that ford is 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 while sord is a flock of mallards.As a verb ford
is to cross a stream using a ford.As a proper noun Ford
is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near a ford.ford
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 .