Related Clues:

• Get one's feet wet
• Graft
• Move slowly
• Arduous journey
• Go in the water just a little way
• Wade through mud
• Walk heavily
• Play in the kiddie pool
• Use hip boots
• Read (through)
• Cranes do it
• Utilize hip boots
• Plod along
• Move with difficulty
• Enter only up to the ankles, say