Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be waded; fordable.
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- adjective able to be
waded across (said of shallow water)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Smallmouths in wadable and floatable rivers move with the light.
Rivers of Bronze 2005
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Here are two top spots: The mouth of the Housatonic near Stratford is wadable by anglers reaching the water via the public park at Short Beach.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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You do not need a guide to fish the Upper Kenai, as it has numerous access points to wadable fishing.
Dave Hurteau Goes Honeymooning on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska 2004
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The Willowemoc offers nearly 7 miles of public water from Livingston Manor downstream to Roscoe, and the Beaverkill's 15 miles below Roscoe are all public and easily wadable.
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- 6: 44am. the White Clay Creek in Pennsylvania's Chester County may be the most intensively studied, wadable, body of water in the world.
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