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/wˈɔkər/ Listen

noun

Walker n.

1.

One who walks; a pedestrian.

2.

That with which one walks; a foot. (Obs.) "Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown."

3.

(Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

4.

A fuller of cloth. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought."

5.

(Zool.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

6.

(construction, tunneling) A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters (4) and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called walking boss.

7.

A low frame having casters or wheels, designed to enclose a baby on its sides and provide support while the baby is learning to walk; it usually has a seat so that the baby can sit while not walking.

Synonyms: go-cart, baby-walker.

8.

A low rectangular frame of light metal about waist high, usually having two horizontal arms mounted on four legs with an open rear, designed to be carried or pushed in front of a person whose legs are impaired, to provide support while walking; it may have wheels on two of the four legs.

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Etymology of 'Walker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Walker" Quotes from Famous Books

... left him with a longing for solitude and the wide silent spaces of the open hills. He struck out in the direction which promised him the quickest opportunity to leave the town behind him. A good walker, he covered the miles rapidly, and under the physical satisfaction of the tramp the brain knots unraveled and smoothed themselves out. It was better so—better to live his own life than the one into which he was being ground by the inexorable facts ...

— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... to say that to members of the younger generation the name of William Walker conveys absolutely nothing. To them, as a name, "William Walker" awakens no pride of race or country. It certainly does not suggest poetry and adventure. To obtain a place in even this group of Soldiers of Fortune, William Walker, the most distinguished of all American Soldiers of Fortune, ...

— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

... Lady Maria. "Emily, this is really enough to drive one quite mad. If everything was not out of the stables, I know you would drive over to Maundell. You are such a good walker,"—catching a gleam of hope,—"do you ...

— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... whole amount of difference between the various breeds has arisen under domestication is doubtful. From the fertility of the most distinct breeds (2/13. Andrew Knight crossed breeds so different in size as a dray-horse and Norwegian pony: see A. Walker on 'Intermarriage' 1838 page 205.) when crossed, naturalists have generally looked at all the breeds as having descended from a single species. Few will agree with Colonel H. Smith, who believes that they have descended from no less than five primitive and differently ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... friend and interpreted by Th' Ole Man. My friend had not read the Sagas, but still he did not hesitate to recommend them; and so we passed through the wide-open gates and up the stone walk to the entrance of Kelmscott House. On the threshold we met F.S. Ellis and Emery Walker, who addressed my companion as "Tom." I knew Mr. Ellis slightly, and also had met Mr. Walker, who works Rembrandt ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

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