Definitions for wader

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wader wad·er

Spelling: [wey-der]

IPA: /ˈweɪ dər/

Wader is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in wader (aderw).

Definitions for wader

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.

Origin of wader

First recorded in 1665-75; wade + -er¹

Examples for wader

You've seen her—the sallow thing with the greasy light-coloured fringe in curlers, who walks flat-footed like a wader on the mud.

Its legs are not long for a wader; its bill is about an inch long.

But they belong to different orders, one being a climber and the other a wader.

Occasionally the wader steps into a deep hole, but this causes not the slightest flurry.

The lengthened feathers on the back of its head, forming a crest, at once distinguish it from every other British wader.

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

The tracks are not in pairs, so the bird does not belong to the perchers; therefore it must be a wader or a swimmer.

"I'm only a wader in the edges of the pool, myself," he admitted.

Ludwig Kumlien says that the purple sandpiper is the first wader to arrive in the spring at Cumberland Sound.

The Bittern is a wader and a recluse, but once in a while, it appears, he has no objection to a clear platform and dry feet.