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Wode vs Ford - What's the difference?

wode | ford |

As nouns the difference between wode and ford

is that wode is obsolete spelling of lang=en while ford is a location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other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.

As an adjective wode

is mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

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.

wode

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* wood

Adjective

(er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
  • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

    (-)
  • ----

    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.