walker

• Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)

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

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.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816)​, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed [by Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 118:

     I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.

   • 2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)

     We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

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.
   • 1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction, paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN:

     Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.

5. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
   • 1980 December 29, New York, volume 14, number 1, page 26:

     He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts.

   • 1981, Spare rib: Volumes 108-119

     Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.

   • 1984, Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton

     In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker" — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening […]

   • 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)
6. A gressorial bird.
7. (law) A forester.

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

walker (plural walkers)

1. A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.

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

walker

1. (slang) a prostitute

walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) +‎ -er

walker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. tucker

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