Walker vs Balker - What's the difference?
walker | balker |
: 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
* 2005 , Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)
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
* 1984 , Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton
* 2007 , (The Walker) (film about a male escort)
One who, or that which balks.
A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.
As nouns the difference between walker and balker
is that walker is 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 while balker is one who, or that which balks.As a proper noun Walker
is {{surname|northern English|from=occupations}} from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.As an interjection Walker
is expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.walker
English
Noun
(en noun)- "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."
- We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.
- 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.
- In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker " — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening