wade

To walk through water or something that impedes progress.intransitive

• So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

To progress with difficulty.intransitive

• to wade through a dull book

To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.transitive

• wading swamps and rivers

To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.

• I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist.
• ... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds.

To enter recklessly.intransitive

• to wade into a fight or a debate

An act of wading.

• We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.

A ford; a place to cross a river.colloquial

Obsolete form of woad.alt-ofobsoleteuncountable

• Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity