Meaning of WALKER
| Pronunciation: | | 'wokur, 'wokur
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- [n] a framework on wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- [n] a light framework (trade name Zimmer) with four rubber feet and handles; helps cripples to walk
- [n] a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- [n] a person who travels by foot
- [n] United States writer (born in 1944)
- [n] New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
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| | Synonyms: | | Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker, baby-walker, footer, go-cart, John Walker, pedestrian, Zimmer, Zimmer frame |
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| | See Also: | | ambler, author, four-minute man, frame, framework, framing, hiker, hobbler, jaywalker, limper, marcher, nondriver, parader, passer, passerby, passer-by, peripatetic, plodder, rambler, reeler, saunterer, shoe, shuffler, slogger, staggerer, stalker, stamper, stomper, strider, stroller, stumbler, swaggerer, totterer, tramp, tramper, trampler, traveler, traveller, tripper, trudger, waddler, wayfarer, writer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Walk"er\, n.
1. One who walks; a pedestrian.
2. That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.]
Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.
--Chapman.
3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain
space for inspection; a forester.
4. [AS. wealcere. See {Walk}, v. t., 3.] A fuller of cloth.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that
had wrought. --Percy's
Reliques.
5. (Zo["o]l.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a
stick insect.
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