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Definition of Fordable
1. Adjective. Shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle. "The stream was fordable"
Definition of Fordable
1. a. Capable of being forded.
Definition of Fordable
1. Adjective. (context: of a body of water) Able to be forded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fordable
1. ford [adj] - See also: ford
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fordable
Literary usage of Fordable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Riparian Rights, Alluvion and Fishery: With Introductory Lectures by Lal Mohun Doss (1891)
"XI of 1825 with respect thereto—' fordable channel,' -what—Origin of the doctrine
of a fordable channel—Requisites of a strict definition of a fordable ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... and almost desperate to every one but themselves, even though the river should
prove to be fordable"*. See Note 220. NOTE 218, Pages 121, 122. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"The river, which has a depth of 20 feet in the rains, is fordable almost everywhere
between December and March, a large body of water being drawn off for ..."
4. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"It should be observed that this custom appears to be based on the hypothesis
that, at all times, one channel is deep, and the other fordable, because it ..."
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