Walker vs Waler - What's the difference?
walker | waler |
: 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)
(Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Wressley of the Foreign Office’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2004, p. 204,
* 1889 , Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the ‘Sunbeam’ , 2010,
* 2007', "'''Waler ", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, ''International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds ,
* 2013 , Peter Macinnis, The Big Book of Australian History ,
(structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
* 1998 , Richard Lampo, Thomas Nosker, Doug Barno, John Busel, Ali Maher, Piyush Dutta, Robert Odello, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program: Development and Demonstration of Composite FRP Fender, Loadbearing, and Sheet Piling Systems , US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, USACERL Technical Report 98/123,
* 2007 , David Easton, The Rammed Earth House ,
* 2009 , Howard A. Perko, Helical Piles: A Practical Guide to Design and Installation ,
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 waler is
(australia|india) a breed of light saddle horse from australia, once favoured as a warhorse or waler can be (structural engineering) a plank of wood, block of concrete, etc, used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.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
Synonyms
* (walking frame) walking frame, Zimmer frameDerived terms
* baby walker * highwire walker * * * tightrope walkerAnagrams
* English agent nounsSee also
* ----waler
English
(Waler horse)Etymology 1
From , the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.Noun
(en noun)- Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler , with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.
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- There were Arabs of high degree, thoroughbred English horses, and very good-looking Walers among them, besides some tiny ponies, four of which, when harnessed together, drew a real Cinderella coach of solid silver.
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- Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.
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- By the 1850s, there was a thriving trade in selling the horses to the Indian Army as 'remounts'. Between 1834 and 1937, more than 300,000 Walers were sent to India.
Usage notes
Formerly considered a horse type, rather than a distinct breed.Etymology 2
Noun
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- Another consideration is when walers' are placed between the piles (Figure 27) and to what extent the pile could deform before the load of the berthing vessel would be shared by the adjacent ' walers .
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- Backing for the plywood is provided by 2” × 12” wooden planks (walers''''' in forming technology) spaced approximately 15 inches apart in the vertical direction and running the full length of the wall section. The form ties are ¾-inch pipe clamps, spaced 6 to 10 feet apart in the horizontal direction. In the typical concrete forms, '''walers''' are 2×4's and form ties are spaced at 2-foot intervals. By using 2×12 ' walers , form ties can be spaced at up to 10-foot intervals.
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- An optional cast-in-place concrete waler' is shown at each anchor row location. The concrete '''walers''' are cast against the earth after installation of the helical anchors and prior to excavation for the next lift. Concrete '''walers''' can reduce the required thickness of shotcrete for the remaining facing. The ' walers also improve punching resistance at the helical tie back locations.