Noun

(en noun)

One who travels, especially to distant lands.

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(label) A modern-day gypsy, tinker, caravan dweller, etc.

(label) A member of the nomadic ethnic minority.

A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.

(label) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.

Noun

(en noun)

: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8

"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.

A walking frame.

(often, in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.

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

A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.

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* 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)