Dictionary entry

Walker

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Walk″er (?), n. 1. One who walks; a pedestrian.

2. That with which one walks; a foot.

Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.

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

4. [AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3.] A fuller of cloth.

She cursed the weaver and the walker

The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques.

5. (Zoöl.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.