Walker

• WordNet 3.6
  • n walker an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
  • n walker 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 walker a shoe designed for comfortable walking
  • n walker a person who travels by foot
  • n Walker United States writer (born in 1944)
  • n Walker 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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• Interesting fact: Because he felt such an important tool should be public property, English chemist John Walker never patented his invention — matches.
• • Walker (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  • Walker A fuller of cloth. "She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought."
  • Walker (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.
  • Walker (Zoöl) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
  • Walker One who walks; a pedestrian.
  • Walker That with which one walks; a foot. "Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown."
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• Interesting fact: Craven Walker invented the lava lamp, and its contents are colored wax and water.
• • n walker One who fulls cloth; a fuller.
  • n walker One who deports himself in a denned manner.
  • n walker One who walks; a pedestrian: as, a fast
  • n walker In English forest law, an officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  • n walker A prowler; one who goes about to do evil.
  • n walker One who trains or walks young honnds. See walk, transitive verb, 6, and n., 8 .
  • n walker In ornithology:
  • n walker A bird of terrestrial but not aquatic habits; especially, one of the Gallinæ: correlated with percher, wader, and swimmer.
  • n walker 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 walker plural In entomology, the ambulatory orthopterous insects of the family Phasmid æ; the phasmids or walking-sticks. See Gressoria.
  • n walker That with which one walks; a foot; a leg.
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• Interesting fact: High-wire acts have been enjoyed since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Antique medals have been excavated from Greek islands depicting men ascending inclined cords and walking across ropes stretched between cliffs. The Greeks called these high-wire performers neurobates or oribates. In the Roman city of Herculaneum there is a fresco representing an aerialist high on a rope, dancing and playing a flute. Sometimes Roman tightrope walkers stretched cables between the tops of two neighboring hills and performed comic dances and pantomimes while crossing.
• • Walker one who walks:
  • Walker (law) a forester: one who trains and walks young hounds: a gressorial bird
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• David Mccord

  

  “A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.”
• Abraham Lincoln

  

  “I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.”
• Abraham Lincoln

  

  “I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

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