Gade vs Wade - What's the difference?
gade | wade |
Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and .
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
As a noun gade
is any of various fish of the cod family found in british waters; especially those of the genera gadus and.As a proper noun wade is
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (pike) gead (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* (l) * (l) ----wade
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate