WADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wading mean? 

• WADING (noun)
  The noun WADING has 1 sense:

1. walking with your feet in shallow water

  Familiarity information: WADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking with your feet in shallow water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("wading" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

wade (walk (through relatively shallow water))

 Context examples 

The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I seized a large man of war, tied a cable to the prow, and, lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself, put my clothes (together with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal port of Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me: they lent me two guides to direct me to the capital city, which is of the same name.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My favourite seat was a smooth and broad stone, rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water; a feat I accomplished barefoot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Bird life was abundant, especially the wading birds, stork, heron, and ibis gathering in little groups, blue, scarlet, and white, upon every log which jutted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with fish of every shape and color.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ebb had already run some time, and I had to wade through a long belt of swampy sand, where I sank several times above the ankle, before I came to the edge of the retreating water, and wading a little way in, with some strength and dexterity, set my coracle, keel downwards, on the surface.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For four or five of them were busy carrying off our stores and wading out with them to one of the gigs that lay close by, pulling an oar or so to hold her steady against the current.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)