wadingn.
/ˈweɪdɪŋ/ The action of wade v.
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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.
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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.
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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.
/ˈweɪdɪŋ/ That wades. wading bird = wader n. 1b.
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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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