waddler (wodler)

[ who or that which waddles. waddling (wod'ling), n. [Verbal n. of waddle2.] A wattled fence. [Prov. Eng.] To arbor begun and quickset ted about, No poling nor wadling till set be far out. Tu er , Husbandrie, p. 83. (Davies.) waddlingly (wod'ling-li), adv . With a waddling gait. waddy (wad'i), n.; pl. waddies (-iz). [Australian.] 1. A war-club of heavy wood, grooved in such a way that the edges of the grooves serve as cutting edges to increase the efficacy of the blow: used by the Australian aborigines. Also waddie. In battle, a blow from a waddy lays low a companion. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 78. Hence-2. A walking-stick. [Australia.] wade (wad), v.; pret. and pp. waded, ppr. wading. [ to wade through sand or snow. She waded through the dirt to pluck him off me. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1. 80. 21. To enter in; penetrate. Whan myght is joyned unto crueltee, Allas, to depe wol the venym wade . Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 504. 3. To move or pa with difficulty or labor, real or apparent; make way against hindrances or embarra ments, as depth, obscurity, or res is tance, material or mental. Of this and that they playde and gonnen wade In many an unkouth, glad, and deepe matere. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 150. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 2. I lament what he [Mr. Fox) must wade through to real power, if ever he should arrive there. Walpole, Letters, II. 494. Wading birds, the waders; Grallæ or Grallatores . II. trans. To pa or cro by wading; ford: as, to wade a stream. or sportsmen in general for wading through water. An ardent votary of fly and bank-fishing, with waders and a two-handed rod. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 632. Hall i well . wadge (waj), v. A dialectal form of wage. wad-hook (wod'huk), n. A ramrod fitted with a wormer, for extracting wads from a gun; also, the wormer of such a rod. Wadhurst clay. In Eng. geol., a division of the Wealden.