shallow fording vs ford

shallow fording and ford both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of shallow fording include fording.

shallow fording (noun)	ford (noun)
fording at a shallow place	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

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