Antonyms for
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
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All Definitions for Ford

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1A 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
2A crossing.
3To cross a stream by walking through it.
4A stream
5A current.
6A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
7A placename:
8A number of places in the United Kingdom:
9A number of places in England:
10A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
11A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
12A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
13A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
14A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
15A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
16A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398).
17A small village and civil parish in northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437).
18A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113).
19A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003).
20A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375).
21A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533).
22A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603).
23A hamlet next to Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526).
24A number of places in the USA:
25An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia.
26A small city in Ford County, Kansas.
27An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky.
28An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
29An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
30A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
31A make of car, named for Henry Ford, or a car (or other vehicle) of this make.

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