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▪ I. wading, vbl. n.|ˈweɪdɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
a. The action of the verb wade.
c1375Barbour Bruce vii. 56 Bot sum men sais, this eschaping Apon ane other maner fell Than throu the vading. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea lii. 124 Wherof more then the one halfe dyed with famine, and continual wading through Rivers and waters. 1813[Leigh Hunt] in Examiner 19 Apr. 242/2 So many creepings in dust and wadings through mire. 1870Kingsley in Good Words 1 June 380/2 We were glad to cool ourselves [in fancy] by talking over..wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.
b. attrib. as in wading-place, wading pool; also in names of waterproof articles of attire for wading, as wading-boots, wading-brogues, wading coats, wading shoes, etc.
1598Florio, Vadetti, narrow wading places or foards. 1866J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe (ed. 2) i. 10, I took for this tour..canvas wading shoes,..a waterproof overcoat, [etc.]. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 58 Wading Stockings. Wading Trousers. Wading Brogues. Wading Coats. Wading Boots. 1888W. E. Norris Chris vi, Prawning is not bad fun for those who have taken the precaution to put on wading-boots. 1921Wading pool [see sand-pile s.v. sand n.2 9 a]. 1977New Yorker 15 Aug. 42/3 He inflated and filled a plastic wading pool for the children.
▪ II. wading, ppl. a.|ˈweɪdɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That wades. wading bird = wader 1 b.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxxxv. 677 It may be called Sedum aquatile, or water Sengreene..in English water Housleeke, Knights Pondwoort, and of some..wading Pondweed. 1867Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xli. 425 Of all families even of wading birds the woodcocks are perhaps the most migratory. 1891Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXVII. 67 A new fossil wading bird has been found in the cretaceous rocks of Sweden, and named Scaniornis Ludgreni. |