Waded definitions

He waded rivers and climbed mountains.

She pulled her boots off and waded into the cool water.

Rolling up her pants legs, she waded across the creek.

He waded out of the water and laid his socks and shirt on a rock in the sun to dry.

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which float through the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.