deep fording vs ford

deep fording and ford both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deep fording	Yes	No	No	No
ford	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, ford is a hypernym of deep fording; that is, ford is a word with a broader meaning than deep fording:

deep fording: fording at a deep place in the stream
ford: the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse

Other hypernyms of deep fording include fording.

deep fording (noun)	ford (noun)
fording at a deep place in the stream	the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
	a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

deep fording (verb)	ford (verb)
	cross a river where it's shallow