0 present participle of wade --
1 to walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite high up your legs, or thick : --
It is vital to retain the mudflats so that the migratory and wading birds can have the benefit of those feeding grounds.
I dread to think of the hazard to a wading angler or a novice canoeist.
Then he is at the mercy of the wading birds and the various crawling insects which come out in the sun.
I have been wading through the comics and the weeklies.
I appreciate the difficulty of wading through this group of amendments while considering what it is all about.
However, the area was designated as a site of special scientific interest because of particular wading birds.
Equally, we can look at books, but we cannot recognise various of the wading birds until we really observe them.
In fact, the number of wading birds exceeds 10,000 in mid winter.