walker

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Phone conversations resulted in rescuers knowing that the walker was at a fence, but she could not determine which fence or which way to go.

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  1. noun One that walks, especially a contestant in a footrace.
  2. noun A frame device used to support someone, such as an infant learning to walk or a convalescent learning to walk again.
  3. noun A shoe specially designed for walking comfortably. Often used in the plural.

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  • ; Then, with a final tight smile, the walker was gone Timein cursed both Urza and himself for the necessity that had drawn him back into the 'walker's plans. —  Loren L
  • As a boy he was a sleep-walker, and he never became warm below the knees till he had been in bed six hours, a circumstance which led his mother to predict that his time on earth would be brief. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
  • For one man who is ruined by drink there are ten ruined by women; and not by the kind of women who are supposed to ruin men either; not by the street-walker, the chorus girl or the demi-mondaine. —  We Three
  • Tom's got two brothers that are peddlers an' a father who's a track-walker, an' he's got a mother what takes in washin'. —  Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
  • A good walker is as regular in his going as clock-work. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
 

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  1. from Middle English walker, from Anglo-Saxon *wealcere (= Old High German walkari, Middle High German walker, welter = Swedish valkare = Danish valker), a fuller, from wealcan, roll, full: see walk. Hence the surname Walker, which has the same meaning as Fuller.
 

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/ˈwɔkər/
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