fording's Usage Examples:

The Tagliamento was falling, however, and a number of troops succeeded in fording the river.

The competition thus constitutes what is termed a " block test," and it is instructive in affording the opportunity of seeing the quality of the carcases furnished by the several animals, and in particular the relative proportion and distribution of fat and lean meat.

In its interior, there was ' a neat little drinking fountain, affording copious libations of ' acqua pura ' ' .

While evil is a possibility for all human beings (we don't need much exemplifications in these days, do we?They commonly treat the historical method with a sort of patronizing toleration as affording useful exemplifications or illustrations of their theorems.

Hence processes have been patented in which the objects to be plated are suspended in revolving drums between the anodes, the rotation of the drum causing the constant renewal of surfaces and affording a burnishing action at the same time.

long, pierces the Hoosac Mountain in the north-west corner of the state, affording a communication with western lines.

'The favourite haunts of the wild cat are mountain forests where masses or rocks or cliffs are interspersed with trees, the crevices in these rocks or the hollow trunks of trees affording sites for the wild cat's lair, where its young are produced and reared.

It is true that the philosophy of Epicurus put great stress on these, as affording the explanation of the origin of supernatural beliefs.

To the north and west the country is comparatively level, the central plain of Ireland here reaching to the coast, but to the south the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains practically touch the confines of Greater Dublin, affording comprehensive views of the physical position of the city, and forming a background to some of the finest streets.

In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.

As the drones increase in number queen-cells are formed, unless steps be taken to turn aside the swarming impulse by affording additional room beforehand in the hive.

From this criginal task arose a second, that of affording shelter to the fragments of peoples heaped together in inextricable confusion in this corner of the earth.

Synonyms:

deep fording, shallow fording, ford, crossing,

Antonyms:

None