Definitions for: Walker


[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)



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: Alice Malsenior Walker, Alice Walker, baby-walker, footer, go-cart, John Walker, pedestrian, Zimmer, Zimmer frame

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

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