wading
adjective C1- Appropriate to wade in. · The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.
- Usually of a bird: which wades. · Flamingos are wading birds.
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“It’s all very well your saying that a man escaped by wading this moat, but what I ask you is, how did he ever get into the house at all if the bridge was up?”
Douglas, blows his head nearly off with this weapon, and escapes by wading the moat, after leaving a card beside the dead man, which will, when mentioned in the papers, tell other members of the society that vengeance has been done.
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