单词 | wading |
释义 | wadingn. The action of wade v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > walking through liquid wading1487 wade1665 paddle1866 paddling1884 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking through liquid or mud wading1487 slushing1864 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 56 Bot sum men sais, this eschaping Apon ane other maner fell Than throu the vading. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lii. 124 Wherof more then the one halfe dyed with famine, and continual wading through Rivers and waters. 1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 19 Apr. 242/2 So many creepings in dust and wadings through mire. 1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words June 380/2 We were glad to cool ourselves [in fancy] by talking over..wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods. Compounds C1. General attributive, as in wading pool; also in names of waterproof articles of attire for wading, as wading-boots, wading-brogues, wading coats, wading shoes, etc. 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 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > for specific purpose > other > shoes running shoea1666 moccasin1834 cricket shoe1844 cricket boot1853 wading shoes1866 gym-shoe1887 track-shoe1908 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > [noun] > paddling pool paddling pool1919 wading pool1921 splash pool1971 1866 J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe (ed. 2) i. 10 I took for this tour..canvas wading shoes,..a waterproof overcoat, [etc.]. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 58 Wading Stockings. Wading Trousers. Wading Brogues. Wading Coats. Wading Boots. 1888 W. E. Norris Chris vi Prawning is not bad fun for those who have taken the precaution to put on wading-boots. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 4/2 Organized playgrounds were a valuable asset to any city—a playground in which there were sandpiles and wading pools for the little ones. 1977 New Yorker 15 Aug. 42/3 He inflated and filled a plastic wading pool for the children. C2. wading-place n. a part of a river that can be crossed by wading; a ford. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford fordc893 wath?c1450 wading-place1598 wathstead1615 ford-way1721 waterway1970 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Vadetti, narrow wading places or foards. 1650 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) II. 9 The said land lying above the second wading-place above Pawtucket ffalls. 1675 Connecticut Public Rec. II. 256 From thence..runn a straight line till they meet with the line where the wading place is. 1733 Maryland Hist. Mag. 15 218 From the lower wading place of the main falls of Potapsco to the second wadeing place of Gwinns Falls. 1781 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1883) Apr. 281 Went in swimming at Robert's wadeing place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021). wadingadj. That wades. wading bird = wader n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird wader1771 stilt-bird1835 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 wading bird1868 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 677 It may be called Sedum aquatile, or water Sengreene..in English water Housleeke, Knights Pondwoort, and of some..wading Pondweed. 1868 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xli. 421 Of all orders even of wading birds the woodcocks are perhaps the most migratory. 1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 67 A new fossil wading bird has been found in the cretaceous rocks of Sweden, and named Scaniornis Ludgreni. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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