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Wader   Listen
noun
Wader  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, wades.
2.
(Zool.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; called also wading bird.





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"Wader" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the wader's back, Is carried along in her devious track, As with a weak and a wailing scream The victim crosses the raging stream. "I will lose, I will lose my gay peregrine!" Cried shrilly the Ladye Tomasine: She will hurry across the ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton
... the next day a delightful little party was enjoyed by the well-to-do inhabitants of Smithton. New as was the town, the parlors of Mrs. General Wader (her husband was something for the railway company) were handsomely furnished, the ladies were elaborately dressed, the gentlemen lacked not one of the funereal garments which men elsewhere wear to evening parties, and stupid people were noticeably rarer than, in ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton


Words linked to "Wader" :   bustard quail, hemipode, Cariama cristata, shoebird, crested cariama, Chunga burmeisteri, limicoline bird, button quail, spoonbill, trumpeter, plain wanderer, seriema, shorebird, crane, Aramus guarauna, aquatic bird, stork, shore bird, Balaeniceps rex, shoebill, Pedionomus torquatus, ortygan, heron, Aramus pictus, rail, bustard, chunga, limpkin, button-quail, ibis


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