FORDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fording mean? 

• FORDING (noun)
  The noun FORDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse

  Familiarity information: FORDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ford; fording

Hypernyms ("fording" is a kind of...):

crossing (traveling across)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fording"):

shallow fording (fording at a shallow place)

deep fording (fording at a deep place in the stream)

Derivation:

ford (cross a river where it's shallow)