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Walker   /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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"Walker" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, Walker. I will take it in myself. I don't want him to see any of you just at present. His head's in a queer state, and the less he is impressed with the fact that he ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty

... and humane man. But the conduct which obtained their applause drew on him the abuse of the Tories, and was not altogether pleasing to his official superior Nottingham. [379] No serious difference however seems to have arisen till the year 1692. In that year an honest old clergyman named Walker, who had, in the time of the Commonwealth, been Gauden's curate, wrote a book which convinced all sensible and dispassionate readers that Gauden, and not Charles the First, was the author of the Icon Basilike. ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the canvases of Charles Walter Stetson, Horatio Walker, Charles W. Hawthorne, Douglas Volk (gold medal), and George de Forest Brush. Volk's three charming pictures deserve to be better hung. The Stetson group illustrates the Impressionist method and result as well as anything in the Palace. ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... splendid edifices of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now stand. Of the latter institution he has been a vice-president, and the chairman of its Society of Arts, and a director from the beginning. General Francis A. Walker, the present president of the Institute, bore this testimony to his efforts in its behalf at the in banquet to Mr. Wilder on his eighty-fifth anniversary: "Through all the early efforts to attract the attention of the legislature and the people to the importance of industrial and art education, and ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. - A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, - Biography, And State Progress • Various

... a sleep-walker awakened; then recovering himself, slowly began to pull on the gloves. Embarrassment was stamped on his agreeable features. His face matched ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse


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