fording

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of ford

noun

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.”

2. Fording place

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