fording

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ford

plural fordings

1. The act by which something is forded.

   By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.

   1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River

2. Fording place

   There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.

   1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69