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walker | traveler |

As a proper noun walker

is from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.

As an interjection walker

is (uk|archaic|slang) expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.

As a noun traveler is

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walker

English

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)

    • Synonyms

    * (walking frame) walking frame, Zimmer frame

    Derived terms

    * baby walker * highwire walker * * * tightrope walker

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    See also

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    traveler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers , of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

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