Ford
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cross a stream using a ford.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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.
Crossing
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks crossA place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossedA voyage across a body of waterThe volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it
Example sentence: A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.