wader

American  

[way-der] / ˈweɪ dər /

noun

1. a person or thing that wades.

2. Also called wading bird. any of various large birds having long legs, long necks, and long bills, that are adapted for wading in shallow waters and living on fish, frogs, etc., as the crane, heron, stork, shoebill, ibis, and flamingo.

3. British. any of various ground-nesting shorebirds of small to moderate size, as the gull, tern, skimmer, phalarope, and plover.

4. waders, high, waterproof boots used for wading, as by fishermen, duck hunters, or laborers.

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wader British  

/ ˈweɪdə /

noun

1. a person or thing that wades

2. Also called: wading bird. any of various long-legged birds, esp those of the order Ciconiiformes (herons, storks, etc), that live near water and feed on fish, etc

3. a Brit name for shore bird

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Etymology

Origin of wader

First recorded in 1665–75; wade + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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wader

Drones have been buzzing over Welsh wetlands this year as researchers try to find curlew nests and save the upland wader from extinction.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024

For Bijleveld, this research is another step forward in assembling the complex puzzle of wader behaviour.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024

“We didn’t want to take a men’s wader and dumb it down and color differently for women,” Bonime said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2017

It looked like someone had bronzed a giant’s hip wader as though it were a baby shoe.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2017

Although he is a wader he wades differently from other birds; and he uses his wings like oars.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns

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