wadable

Or wade·a·ble

[wey-duh-buhl]

adjective

1. that can be waded.

   a wadable stream.

Other Word Forms

• unwadable adjective
• unwadeable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wadable¹

First recorded in 1605–15; wade + -able

Example Sentences

For centuries, virtually nothing but an often easily wadable Rio Grande stood between the city and Juarez.

Read more on Seattle Times

Clinton's charts had told him that the low-tide depth in the Breach was a wadable 18 inches.

Read more on Time Magazine Archive

Friedrich, through Winter, has had Schmettau earnestly flagitating the Hanoverian Officialities: "The Weser is wadable in many places, you cannot defend the Weser!" and counselling and pleading to all lengths,—without the least effect.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

How the Weser did prove wadable, as Schmettau had said to no purpose; wadable, bridgable; and Royal Highness had to wriggle back, ever back; no stand to be made, or far worse than none: back, ever back, till he got into the Sea, for that matter, and to the END of more than one thing!

Read more on Project Gutenberg

Browne, at any rate, is rapidly strengthening his right wing, which has hold of Lobositz; pushing forward in that quarter,—where the Brook withal is of firmer bottom and more wadable.

Read more on Project Gutenberg