wader
Americannoun
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a person or thing that wades.
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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.
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British. any of various ground-nesting shorebirds of small to moderate size, as the gull, tern, skimmer, phalarope, and plover.
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waders, high, waterproof boots used for wading, as by fishermen, duck hunters, or laborers.
noun
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a person or thing that wades
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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
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a Brit name for shore bird
Etymology
Origin of wader
Example Sentences
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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
Why, then, did they hesitate to trust themselves to the quick, bold stroke of the swimmer, instead of the slow, timid, tortoise-like tread of the wader?
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
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