wading-stockings

Updated: May 12, 2025

Another time I was sitting beside the road, trying to get out of a very long, wet, awkward pair of wading-stockings, an occupation which is unfavourable to tranquillity of mind, when a man came up to me in the dusk and accosted me with an absence of politeness which in German amounted to an insult. "Have you been fishing?" "Why do you want to know?" "Have you any right to fish?"

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness

The first is by far the more artistic, and it may be practised either from a boat, from the bank or from the bed of the river itself; in the last case the angler wades, wearing waterproof trousers or wading-stockings and stout nail-studded brogues. In either case the fishing is similar.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1