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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Waddle

Wăd'dle, v. i.

verbintransitive

(wŏd'dl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. WADDLED; p. pr. & vb. n. WADDLING.] [A-S. wāddian, to wander, beg, from wadan, to go; O. H. Ger. wadōn, to wander about, M. H. Ger. wadden, N. H. Ger. wadeln, wedeln.] To walk with short steps, throwing the body to one side and the other, like a duck, or a very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a duck or a goose waddles.

She draws her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

Wăd'dle, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To wade or walk through; to trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [Rare.] They tread and waddle all the goodly grass. Drayton.