Wode vs Ford - What's the difference?
wode | ford |
(archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
* a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
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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 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is that wode is obsolete spelling of lang=en while ford is a location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other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
* woodAdjective
(er)- 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 woadNoun
(-)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 .