walker (waker)

[ And his cloth is ben maad schynynge and white ful moc he as snow, and which maner cloth is a fullere, or walk ere of cloth, may not make white on erthe. Wyclif , Mark ix. 2. 2. One who deports himself in a defined man ner. There is another sort of disorderly walkers who still keep amongst us. Bp . Compton , Episcopal i a, p. 66. (Latham.) 3. One who walks; a pedestrian: as, a fast walker. Where the low Penthouse bows the Walker's head, And the rough Pavement wounds the yielding Tread. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [II. 158. 4. In Eng. forest law, an officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.-5t. A prowler; one who goes about to do evil. Wepyng, y warne zow of walkers aboute; It beth enemyes of the cros that crist opon tholede. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 90. Walkers by nyght, with gret murderers, Overthwarte with gyle, and joly carders. Quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 429. 6. One who trains or walks young hounds. See walk, v. t., 6, and n., 8 (b). The toast, "Succe to fox-hunting, and the puppy walk ers of England." Field , Aug. 27, 1887. ( Encyc . Dict .) 7. In ornith .: ( a ) A bird of terrestrial but not aquatic habits; especially, one of the Gallinæ : correlated with percher , wader , and swimmer . ( b ) A bird which belongs to the perching group, but which, when on the ground, advances by moving one foot after the other, instead of both together; a gradient or gre orial as distinguished from a saltatorial bird.-8. pl . In entom ., the ambulatory orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ ; the phasmids or walkingsticks. See Gre oria. - 9+. That with which one walks; a foot; a leg. IMG:content-2019.jpg:[blocks in formation] Double wal key walker a fang phishenian in believes to be false or gammon. Various problematical Walker! or Hookey ejaculation of uttered when a person tells a story explanations have been offered. [Slang, Eng.] "Go and buy it [a prize turkey]." " Walk - er ! " exclaimed the boy. "No, no," said Scrooge; "I am in earnest." Dickens, Christmas Carol, v. Walkers' clay, fullers' earth. - Walkers' earth, fullers' earth. The use of the word walker for fuller has now become obsolete in England, but a certain unctuous variety of fullers' earth found in the Lower Ludlow beds, in Wales, appears to be sometimes provincially designated both as walkers ' earth and as dye -earth. Walker cell. See cell , 8. Walker tariff. See tariff .