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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A narrow, often elevated walkway, as on the sides of a bridge or in the flies above a theater stage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel
  2. n. any similar elevated walkway
  3. n. A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway
  4. n. the business of making clothes for fashion shows.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway.
  2. n. a narrow walkway high in the air to allow workers access to parts of a structure otherwise difficult to reach. Catwalks are located, e.g. above a stage in a theater, between parts of a building, along the side of a bridge, on the outside of a railroad car, on the outside of a large storage tank, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. narrow platform extending out into an auditorium
  2. n. narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge)

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