"fording" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1953, Aldo Leopold, Round River",
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          "ref": "1910, Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”, in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, published 1918, page 69",
          "text": "There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.",
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