walker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
    John Walker.
  2. noun United States writer (born in 1944)
    Alice Walker; Alice Malsenior Walker.
  3. noun a person who travels by foot
    pedestrian; footer.
  4. noun a shoe designed for comfortable walking
  5. noun a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
    Zimmer; Zimmer frame.
  6. noun an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
    baby-walker; go-cart.

WordNet

Walk"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who walks; a pedestrian.
  2. That with which one walks; a foot. Obs.
    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. Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.
    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.

Webster 1913