[weyd] 
,verb, wad⋅ed, wad⋅ing, noun | 1. | to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading. |
| 2. | to play in water: The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon. |
| 3. | to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement: to wade through the mud. |
| 4. | to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often fol. by through): to wade through a dull book. |
| 5. | Obsolete. to go or proceed. |
| 6. | to pass through or cross by wading; ford: to wade a stream. |
| 7. | an act or instance of wading: We went for a wade in the shallows. |
| 8. | wade in or into,
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[weyd] | 1. | Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician. |
| 2. | a male given name. |
| wade (wād) v. wad·ed, wad·ing, wades v. intr.
To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty: wade a swift creek. n. The act or an instance of wading. Phrasal Verb(s): wade in/intoTo plunge into, begin, or attack resolutely and energetically: waded into the task. [Middle English waden, from Old English wadan.] |
| Wade (wād) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Ohio (1851-1869) and jointly authored the Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864), which declared the primacy of Congress in matters of the Reconstruction. |