wader
wader
Definition
wader (wā′dər)
noun
- a person or thing that wades
- any bird that wades in marshes, lakes, etc.
- high waterproof boots
- ☆ waterproof overalls with bootlike parts for the feet, worn as by fishermen for wading in deep water
wader
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- migrate: More than once at night migrating waders were heard, curlew being unmistakable.
- breed: The island also supports a high density of breeding waders, with 67 pairs being recorded in 1987.
- don: Two brave volunteers donned waders and walked the whole perimeter of the pond and dragged out all the debris from the pond.
- winter: The annual cycles of northern wintering waders take account of the possibility of severe weather.
- attract: The southern shore, by Jose do Canto church, is sandy and has attracted waders.
- wear: I often wear chest waders for drift fishing in a boat, particularly in the rain.
Adjective modifier
- breathable: With breathable waders, on the other hand, I feel that the best are worth paying for.
- migratory: Migratory waders on the other hand, could find alternative feeding grounds, albeit with loss of numbers.
- migrant: More migrant waders were around the edges, feeding up, not ready yet for their journeys north.
- rare: The conservation body decided the hedgehogs would have to be destroyed because they were eating the eggs of rare waders.
- common: We walked to the beach and saw a number of common waders.
Modifies a noun
- scrape: The LNR contains a lake and a wader scrape which was cut a few years back using money from landfill tax grants.
- passage: Autumn wader passage showed an improvement on recent years with 13 species being recorded during the peak period.
- specie: This RSPB reserve allows for good views of in excess of 20 wader species per day in August.
Preposition: along
- shore: After more than an hour of scanning waders along the south shore I left for Doğubayazit.
Noun used with modifier
- thigh: At first I had some heavy rubber thigh waders which preferred clinging to the mud than to my thighs.
- chest: I often wear chest waders for drift fishing in a boat, particularly in the rain.
- breeding: Breeding Curlew were among the abundant breeding waders much in evidence on the moorland.
- passage: The timing was perfect for passage waders, with an amazing 19 species seen on the first morning plus Greater Flamingo!
- tide: The high tide wader roost around the shearing barn at the east end of the level has had fewer birds in recent years.
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