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wader

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wader
1. any of various long-legged birds, esp those of the order Ciconiiformes (herons, storks, etc.), that live near water and feed on fish, etc.
2. a Brit name for shore bird
wader [′wād·ər]
(vertebrate zoology)
shore bird


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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
I used to admire the ripple marks on the sandy bottom, at the north end of this pond, made firm and hard to the feet of the wader by the pressure of the water, and the rushes which grew in Indian file, in waving lines, corresponding to these marks, rank behind rank, as if the waves had planted them.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
To this genus, or rather to the family of the Waders, its skeleton shows that it is really related.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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