Walker
noun
1.
an enclosing framework on casters or wheels for supporting a baby who is learning to walk.
2.
a similar device, usually a waist-high four-legged framework of lightweight metal, for use by a weak or disabled person as a support while walking.
3.
(usually initial capital letter) Informal. Walker hound.
4.
a person or thing that walks or likes to walk:
He’s a great walker.
5.
Theater Slang. an extra or supernumerary.
6.
Slang. a musician required by a union contract to be hired and paid full salary even when not needed for performance.
noun
1.
Alice, born 1944, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2.
David, 1785–1830, U.S. abolitionist.
3.
James John (“Jimmy”) 1881–1946, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1926–32.
4.
John, born 1952, New Zealand track-and-field athlete.
5.
Sarah Breedlove
[breed-luhv] /ˈbridˌlʌv/ (Show IPA), 1867–1919, U.S. businesswoman and philanthropist.
6.
a city in W Michigan.
7.
a male given name.
noun
1.
a person who walks
2.
Also called baby walker. a tubular frame on wheels or castors to support a baby learning to walk
3.
a similar support for walking, often with rubber feet, for use by disabled or infirm people
4.
a woman’s escort at a social event: let me introduce my walker for tonight
noun
1.
Alice (Malsenior). born 1944, US writer: her works include In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and the novels Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
2.
Sir John. born 1952, New Zealand middle-distance runner, the first athlete to run one hundred sub-four-minute miles
walker walk·er (wô’kər)
n.
A frame device used to support someone, such as an infant learning to walk or a convalescent learning to walk again.
A shoe specially designed for walking comfortably. Often used in the plural.
walk back the cat
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