Old English wadan "to go forward, proceed, move, stride, advance" (the modern sense perhaps represented in oferwaden "wade across"), from Proto-Germanic *wadan (source also of Old [..]

to walk through shallow water.

From an English surname, either Wade 1 or Wade 2.

English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945) walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?&quot [..]

to walk in water

(n) English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)(v) walk (through relatively shallow water)

to go through watery places, is the Anglo-Saxon wad (a ford), wadan (to ford or go [through a meadow]). (See WEYD-MONAT.)

John Wade was born in London to working class parents. He worked for more than a decade as a journeyman wool sorter, then he ‘wrote his way out of obscurity’ ...

n. "Wade, obscure legendary figure," proper n.; not in MED. KEY: wade@n#propn

n#propn 2 wade 1 wades 1

(intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress. * Milton *: So eagerly the fiend/ With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or cr [..]

From an English surname, either Wade 1 or Wade 2.