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Usually this term is used to refer to places along a river's banks where there is easy access to the water on both sides of the river, and that is also shallow all the way across at that particular location. People traveling in the days before highway networks and bridges, had to know where all the places to cross the river were. These places have often later become the sites of settlements.

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