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walker
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)
- 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.
- A walking frame.
- Synonyms: walking frame, Zimmer frame
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A zombie.
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)
- A gressorial bird.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (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)
- (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
- (slang) a prostitute
Manx
Etymology
From walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) +? -er.
Noun
walker m (genitive singular walker, plural walkeryn)
- tucker
- Synonym: walkeyder
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calker
English
Etymology
calk +? -er
Noun
calker (plural calkers)
- One who calks.
- A calk on a shoe.
Anagrams
- Clarke, lacker, rackle, recalk
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