单词 | wader |
释义 | wadern. 1. a. One who wades. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking through liquid > one who paddler1611 wader1673 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > through liquid wader1673 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 120 So great a wader in discoveries..might be..employ'd in groping for the head of Nile. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 107 James Made toward us, like a wader in the surf, Beyond the brook, waist-deep in meadow-sweet. 1905 J. B. Firth Highways & Byways in Derbyshire xxv. 372 Muddy channels..in which a wader would sink to his waist. b. said of a bird; esp. as the distinctive appellation of those long-legged birds (as the heron, plover, snipe, etc., constituting the former order Grallæ or Grallatores), which wade in shallow water. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird wader1771 stilt-bird1835 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 wading bird1868 1771 G. Edwards Descr. Bird from E. Indies in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 55 I judged it to be no wader in the water. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 175 Waders.—The bill is somewhat cylindrical..the legs are longish. The chief genera are the Herons, Plovers, Snipes, and Sandpipers. 1851 G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (1855) 312 6th Order.—Grallatores (or Waders). 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 35 Ducks take to the water, eagles to the sky, waders to the sea margin. 1905 Spectator 13 May 707/1 Another wader, rather smaller than the redshank,..which the present writer has not been able to identify. 2. plural. Waterproof boots reaching above the knee, used by anglers for wading. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > waterproof > types of waders1841 wading-boots1866 wellington boot1886 Wellington1891 welly1961 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins I. i. 30 Mud-boots, waders, and snow-boots. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 58 Fishing Waders, very light, requiring no separate Brogues. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 210 Short mackintosh coats to reach the waders will be required. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1673 |
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