Walker
['wɔːkə] or ['wɔkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk.
(noun.) a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk.
(noun.) a shoe designed for comfortable walking.
(noun.) United States writer (born in 1944).
(noun.) 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).
Checker: Sandra--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. t.) A fuller of cloth.
(v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
Inputed by Glenda
Examples
- Mrs. Hurst thought the same, and added: She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mrs. Walker went out and came back with a pajama jacket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Trenor's eye had the haggard look of the sleep-walker waked on a deathly ledge. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Walker, whom he married a few years later. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I never was much of a walker, or rider either. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is too much, Mr. Walker; I cannot bear it, indeed I cannot. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I, Mr. Walker! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Oh, Mr. Walker, this is too much. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Faraday, to whom also was given Promethean inspiration, procured some of Walker's matches and brought them to public notice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I might have some hope of preventing the elopement; but there's the same difficulty, Mr. Walker, just the same. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was not until 1827-29 that John Walker, chemist, at Stockton-upon-Tees, improved upon the idea of Prometheus and Hanckwitz of giving fire to men in a hollow tube. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- About 1818 Joseph Walker of Hopkinston, Massachusetts invented the wooden peg. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Walker, that young Edison could fill the position. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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