different between walke vs walker

English

Verb

walke (third-person singular simple present walkes, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

1. Obsolete spelling of walk

Anagrams

• kwela

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??k?/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?w?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)
• Hyphenation: walk?er
• Homophone: waulker

Etymology 1

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk +? -er.

Noun

walker (plural walkers)

1. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
2. A walking frame.

   Synonyms: walking frame, Zimmer frame

3. (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. A zombie.
5. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
   • 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)
6. A gressorial bird.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (law) A forester.
8. (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
9. (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: válcaeir

Synonyms

• walking frame
• rollator
• (British) Zimmer frame, zimmer frame

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere (“one who fulls cloth”), equivalent to walk (“to full”) +? -er.

Noun

walker (plural walkers)

1. (now rare) Synonym of fuller.

Derived terms

• walker's earth

Further reading

• walker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• walker (mobility) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rewalk

Cebuano

Etymology

From English walker, from Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere.

Noun

walker

1. (slang) a prostitute

Manx

Etymology

From walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) +? -er.

Noun

walker m (genitive singular walker, plural walkeryn)

1. tucker

   Synonym: walkeyder