Wade
[wed]
[weɪd] or [wed]
Definition
(noun.) English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945).
(verb.) walk (through relatively shallow water); 'Can we wade across the river to the other side?'; 'Wade the pond'.
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Definition
(n.) Woad.
(v. i.) To go; to move forward.
(v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
(v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
(v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
(n.) The act of wading.
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Definition
v.i. to walk through any substance that yields to the feet as water: to pass with difficulty or labour.—n. (coll.) a ford.—n. Wā′der one who wades: a bird that wades e.g the heron: (pl.) high waterproof boots used by fishermen for wading.
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Examples
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Cavalry Corps: LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WADE HAMPTON, Commanding. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe--turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Miss Wade mostly lives abroad, Mr Clennam. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was the man; the man he had followed in company with the girl, and whom he had overheard talking to Miss Wade. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Miss Wade is a clever lady, who has read heaps of books, and can tell you far better and more interesting stories than I know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Every individual waded over, then, and stood upon the further bank. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It must be waded through, however. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Armed with supernatural strength, he waded through the sand, until, exhausted with fatigue and thirst, he fell senseless on the earth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The troops waded the stream, which was up to their necks in the deepest part. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then, one after the other, they waded out, and went up to the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Much more probably it waded half submerged in pursuit of the herbivorous river saurians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But ere the words had passed his lips she was across the snowy road, rather skimming than wading the drifts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wading birds, which frequent the muddy edges of ponds, if suddenly flushed, would be the most likely to have muddy feet. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We knew by our wading experience, however, that many streets in America are double as wide as the Jordan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I had lived near what was called the Jersey market, and saw, with pain, the inhabitants wading in mud while purchasing their provisions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A tribe of stalwart Moors are wading into the sea to carry us ashore on their backs from the small boats. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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