Forded vs Forted - What's the difference?
forded | forted |
(ford)
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
(fort)
Ensconced in or protected by a fort.
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 104:
As verbs the difference between forded and forted
is that forded is (ford) while forted is (fort).As an adjective forted is
ensconced in or protected by a fort.forded
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*ford
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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 .
forted
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The fort was built right in the middle of a large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had, therefore, become quite careless.