Meaning of forder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who fords (a stream, river, etc.)
2. A surname.
3. A hamlet in Saltash parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4158).

Examples

“1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form⟳ in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt Hundreds of snakes had sought refuge in it, and as many of them remained under water, the forders were not able to see⟳ them until they almost came in contact⟳ with the reptiles.”

“1991, Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Part II, Settings xiii, p. 67, Re-enter this as the adult of solitude, The silence-forder and the definite Presence you sensed withdrawing first time round.”

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