Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ford \Ford\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fording}.]
   To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to
   wade through.

         His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to
         be forted.                               --Milton.