Dictionary entry

Walk (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

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

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.

A woody mountain... with goodliest trees

Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton.

He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer.

Amid the sound of steps that beat

The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant.

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

The mountains are his walks. Sandys.

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope.

6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.

7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.