Walker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that walks, especially a contestant in a footrace.
  • n. A frame device used to support someone, such as an infant learning to walk or a convalescent learning to walk again.
  • n. A shoe specially designed for walking comfortably. Often used in the plural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
  • n. A walking frame.
  • n. A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
  • n. A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
  • n. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who walks; a pedestrian.
  • n. That with which one walks; a foot.
  • n. A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  • n. A fuller of cloth.
  • n. Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who fulls cloth; a fuller.
  • n. One who deports himself in a denned manner.
  • n. One who walks; a pedestrian: as, a fast
  • n. In English forest law, an officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  • n. A prowler; one who goes about to do evil.
  • n. One who trains or walks young honnds. See walk, transitive verb, 6, and n., 8 .
  • n. In ornithology:
  • n. A bird of terrestrial but not aquatic habits; especially, one of the Gallinæ: correlated with percher, wader, and swimmer.
  • n. A bird which belongs to the perching group. but which, when on the ground, advances by moving one foot after the other, instead of both together; a gradient or gressorial as dis tinguished from a saltatorial bird.
  • n. plural In entomology, the ambulatory orthopterous insects of the family Phasmid æ; the phasmids or walking-sticks. See Gressoria.
  • n. That with which one walks; a foot; a leg.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
  • 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)
  • n. a shoe designed for comfortable walking
  • n. an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
  • n. a person who travels by foot
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    framework    author    writer    four-minute man    shoe   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pedestrian    foot    forester    footman    footer    peripatetic    dustyfoot    perambulator    trudger    tramper   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hawker    stalker    talker   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    swimmer    cyclist    acrobat    marksman    climber    swordsman    wrestler    Wall Street    dancer    pedestrian