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wader
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "wader":- On Thursday the red tinge had died out of the water, but only a very strong wader would have ventured in; others had a good chance, if they tried it, of being picked up at Berwick. - "Angling Sketches", Andrew Lang.
- So passed from human ken the great, noble and learned Richard Francis Burton, " wader of the seas of knowledge," " cistern of learning of our globe," " exalted above his age," " opener by his books of night and day," " traveller by ship and foot and horse." - "The Life of Sir Richard Burton", Thomas Wright.
- In the company of the purple sandpiper there is often seen a somewhat larger wader, or, more correctly, a bird intermediate between the waders and the swimming birds. - "The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II", A.E. Nordenskieold.