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)

Noun

(en noun)

One who tramps.

(chiefly, New Zealand) A recreational hiker.

* 2007 , Linda Barnard, "Train trek carries travellers over New Zealand's alpine backbone," Toronto Star , 29 Dec., p. T9:

It's a popular spot for hikers, or trampers as they call them here.

(industry) A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.

* {{quote-book, title=Cotton Ginner's Handbook, author=W.S. Anthony, D.W. Van Doorn, and Douglas Herber, year=1995, chapter=Packaging Lint Cotton, page=123, isbn=078812420X citation

, passage=The purpose of the tramper is to pack the lint into the press box under the restraining dogs near the top end of the press box.}}

(nautical) A ship, typically a bulk freighter, which does not travel on a fixed route; compare liner.

* {{quote-book, title=Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History, author=Robert C. Keither, page=194, year=2005, isbn=0801879809 citation

, passage=A Greek ship wants 30 pounds of feta cheese, a British tramper requests five cases of steak and kidney pies, a Japanese auto carrier orders 75 pints of boiled octopus,