v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Walked p. pr. & vb. n. Walking. ] [ OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. vālka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. √130. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
May walk again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When was it she last walked? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [ Obs. ] “Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do you think I'd walk in any plot? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To move off; to depart. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. --
To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7. --
To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. --
To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3. --
To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7. --
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. --
To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. --
To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. [ 1913 Webster ]

As we walk our earthly round. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. “ I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. [ AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot. ] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [ Obs. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. To move in a manner likened to walking. [ Colloq. ]

She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. C. E. Craddock.

To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave. --
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees
Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amid the sound of steps that beat
The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountains are his walks. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

9. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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a. Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That with which one walks; a foot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3. ] A fuller of cloth. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She cursed the weaver and the walker
The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (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. [ RDH ]

7. A low frame having casters or wheels, designed to enclose a baby on its sides and provide support while the baby is learning to walk; it usually has a seat so that the baby can sit while not walking.
Syn. -- go-cart, baby-walker. [ PJC ]

8. A low rectangular frame of light metal about waist high, usually having two horizontal arms mounted on four legs with an open rear, designed to be carried or pushed in front of a person whose legs are impaired, to provide support while walking; it may have wheels on two of the four legs. [ PJC ]

a. & n. from Walk, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Walking beam. See Beam, 10. --
Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. --
Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. --
Walking fish (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as Ophiocephalus marulius, become over four feet long. They have a special cavity over the gills lined with a membrane adapted to retain moisture to aid in respiration, and are thus able to travel considerable distances over the land at night, whence the name. They construct a curious nest for their young. Called also langya. --
Walking gentleman (Theater), an actor who usually fills subordinate parts which require a gentlemanly appearance but few words. [ Cant ] --
Walking lady (Theater), an actress who usually fills such parts as require only a ladylike appearance on the stage. [ Cant ] --
Walking leaf. (a) (Bot.) A little American fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus); -- so called because the fronds taper into slender prolongations which often root at the apex, thus producing new plants. (b) (Zool.) A leaf insect. See under Leaf. --
Walking papers, or
Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office; as, to get one's walking papers, i. e. to be dismissed or fired. [ Colloq. ] Bartlett. --
Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zool.) A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. --
Walking wheel (Mach.), a prime mover consisting of a wheel driven by the weight of men or animals walking either in it or on it; a treadwheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill. ] A fulling mill. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Baseball) Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; -- of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey. This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played, the winner of the game having already been decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning, the game is ended. [ Baseball jargon ] [ PJC ]

Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964. Jack Curry (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1999 p. D4) [ PJC ]

There are so many people in here who are happy for Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off homer in the World Series, that's something he's going to remember for a long time. Paul O'Neill (the Yankee outfielder, quoted by Jack Curry in the New York Times, Oct. 27, 1999 p. D4) [ PJC ]

n. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (colloquially) A one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Syn. -- walk; cake-walk. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Scand. Myth.) See Valkyria. [ 1913 Webster ]