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Walk   /wɔk/  /wɑk/   Listen
verb
Walk  v. t.  
1.
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. "As we walk our earthly round."
2.
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. " I will rather trust... a thief to walk my ambling gelding."
3.
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. (Obs. or Scot.)
4.
(Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. (Cant)
5.
To move in a manner likened to walking. (Colloq.) "She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force."
To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave.
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.


Walk  v. i.  (past & past part. walked; pres. part. walking)  
1.
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. "At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon." "When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus." Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.
2.
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
3.
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. "I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again." "When was it she last walked?"
4.
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. (Obs.) "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." "Do you think I'd walk in any plot?" "I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth."
5.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. "We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us."
6.
To move off; to depart. (Obs. or Colloq.) "He will make their cows and garrans to walk."
To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.
To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin.
To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God.
To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation.
To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin.
To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities.
To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations.
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.
To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions.
To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.


noun
Walk  n.  
1.
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
2.
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
3.
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
4.
That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. "A woody mountain... with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers." "He had walk for a hundred sheep." "Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain."
5.
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. "The mountains are his walks." "He opened a boundless walk for his imagination."
6.
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
7.
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. (Eng.)
8.
In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
9.
(Sporting)
(a)
A place for keeping and training puppies.
(b)
An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.





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"Walk" Quotes from Famous Books



... Blue was now very happy, and his mother was proud and contented and began to improve in health. After a few weeks she became strong enough to leave the cottage and walk a little in the fields each day; but she could not go far, because her limbs were too feeble to support her long, so the most she could attempt was to walk as far as the stile to meet Little Boy Blue as he came home from work in the ...
— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum
... overtake some weak or lazy puller, who seems to be moving as slowly as the gait permits. Therewith, instead of bounding by, your man drops immediately behind the slow-going vehicle, and slackens his pace almost to a walk. For half an hour, or more, you may be thus delayed by the regulation which obliges the strong and [402] swift to wait for the weak and slow. An angry appeal is made to the runner who dares to pass another; and the idea behind the words might be thus ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn
... life for fear the third should fall into less tender hands than theirs. For Miss Blanche Lunley was a cripple: disorder of the spine had robbed her, in youth's very bloom, of the power not only to dance, as you girls do, but to walk or even stand upright, leaving her two active little hands, and a heart as nearly angelic as we are likely to see ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... going," Andy remarked, conscientiously. "It's pretty rough; some places, you'd have to walk and ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... second point is this: that upon the whole we rather prefer women (nay, even men) to walk upright; so we do not waste much of our noble lives in inventing any other way for them to walk. In short, my second reason for not speculating upon whether woman might get rid of these peculiarities, is that I do not want her to get rid of them; nor ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton


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