vbl. sb. [f. FORD v. + -ING1.] a. The action of crossing a ford; also attrib. b. A fording-place or ford.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xiv. (1859), 327. The hollo came past us on the gale louder and louder, until it guided us to the fording which we had crossed on our first arrival.
1854. J. L. Stephens, Centr. Amer. (1854), 278. After a most difficult descent, we reached the bank; but here there was no fording-place, and no path on the opposite side.
1881. W. Senior, On a Cattle Station, in Gentl. Mag., CCL. Jan., 68. The days that had intervened between our journey up and down having been without rain, the foaming, roaring currents had become ignoble creeks, showing us that in two fordings we had narrowly escaped plumping into holes.
