wading

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

Adjective

wading (not comparable)

1. Appropriate to wade in.

   The pool is too small for doing laps: it's only a wading pool.

2. Which wades (usually said of birds).

   Flamingos are wading birds.

Verb

wading

1. present participle of wade

Noun

wading (plural wadings)

1. The act of one who wades.
   • Charles Kingsley

     […] 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 […]

Anagrams

• dawing