"wade"

Definition:

• Woad.
• To go; to move forward.
• To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
• Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
• To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
• The act of wading.

Web Definitions for wade

• English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
• walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond"
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• WADE is an AM Radio Station broadcasting on 1340 kHz. The station is owned by the Inspirational Deliverance Center of Waxhaw, North Carolina, but the city of license is Wadesboro, North Carolina, one county east in Anson County, North Carolina.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WADE (AM)

• an act of wading; to walk through water or something that impedes progress; to progress with difficulty
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wade

• (1805-1875).—Poet, born at Woodbridge, published poems, dramas, sonnets, and a translation of Dante’s Inferno. ...
  www.bibliomania.com/2/3/259/1266/24484/1.html

• To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
  www.bioquaticsupply.com/html/lkword_w.htm

• Wade, Benjamin F. ...of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, Wade played a prominent but controversial role in investigating all aspects of the Union military effort. ...
  www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/633757/Benjamin-F-Wade