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Noun

  1. 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; a crossing.
  2. A stream; a current.
  3. A make of car, named for Henry Ford, or a car (or other vehicle) of this make.

Verb

  1. To cross a stream by walking through it.

Proper noun

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

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