name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
forder
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːdə/
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General-American: /ˈfɔɹdɚ/
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
name
Meaning 2
A hamlet in Saltash parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4158).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
One who fords (a stream, river, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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History
Etymology
From ford + -er.