Wading
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wading is an adjective meaning Appropriate to wade in.
Meaning
Appropriate to wade in.
More Meanings
- Usually of a bird: which wades.
- gerund of wade: the act of one who wades.
- present participle and gerund of wade
Example Sentences
Flamingos are wading birds.
The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.
Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.
[I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.
Word Forms
- wadings
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