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wader Noun a long-legged bird, such as the heron or stork, that lives near water and feeds on fish Also called: (wading 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. 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. To this genus, or rather to the family of the Waders, its skeleton shows that it is really related. |
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