wade

To walk through water or something that impedes progress.

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 progress with difficulty.

to wade through a dull book

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.

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

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.

to wade into a fight or a debate

The champ [Alekhine] seems to reel and stagger helplessly. It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR

An act of wading.

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

A ford; a place to cross a river.

Obsolete form of woad.

Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity