[-ING2.] That wades. Wading bird = WADER 1 b.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. cclxxxv. 677. It may be called Sedum aquatile, or water Sengreene … in English water Housleeke, Knights Pondwoort, and of some … wading Pondweed.
1867. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. III. xli. 425. Of all families even of wading birds the woodcocks are perhaps the most migratory.
1891. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXVII. 67. A new fossil wading bird has been found in the cretaceous rocks of Sweden, and named Scaniornis Ludgrem.
