Walk , v. t. 1. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant]
2. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
She walked a
spinning wheel into the house, making it use first
one and then the other of its
own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.
C. E. Craddock. To walk one's
chalks, to make off; take French leave.
Walk (?), n.
1. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
2. (Sporting) (a)
A place for keeping and training puppies.
(b) An inclosed
area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
Walk , n.
1. The act
of walking, or moving on
the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person
at a distance by his walk.
4. That in or through
which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking
air and exercise; way; road; hence, a
place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest
trees
Planted, with
walks and bowers.
Milton. He had walk for a hundred
sheep.
Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat
The murmuring walks like rain.
Bryant. 5. A
frequented track; habitual
place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the
historian.
The mountains are his walks.
Sandys.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.
Pope. 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.
7. The route or
district regularly
served by a vender; as, a
milkman's walk. [Eng.]
Walk , v. t. 1. To
pass through, over, or upon;
to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round.
Keble. 2. To cause to walk; to lead,
drive, or ride with a slow pace; as
to walk one's horses. " I will rather
trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.
3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.]
To walk the plank, to walk off the
plank into the water and
be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from
the side of
a ship, and
compelled those whom they would drown to walk
off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an
office by compulsion. Bartlett.
Walk (w&add;k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Walking.]
[OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to
work a hat,
G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full,
Icel. vālka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll,
Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen.
√130.]
1. To move along on
foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate
pace; specifically, of two-legged
creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of
the kingdom of Babylon.
Dan. iv.
29. When Peter was come down out
of the ship,
he walked on the water, to
go to Jesus.
Matt. xiv.
29. &fist; In the walk of
quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground
at once, but
never four.
2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to
go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping
person, or the spirit of
a dead person; to go
about as a somnambulist or a specter.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
May walk again.
Shak. When was it she last
walked?
Shak. 4. To be in motion; to act; to move;
to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser.
Do you think
I'd walk
in any plot?
B.
Jonson. I heard a pen
walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
Latimer. 5. To behave; to
pursue a course of life; to conduct one's
self.
We
walk perversely with God, and
he will walk crookedly toward us.
Jer.
Taylor. 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or
Colloq.]
He will make their cows and garrans to walk.
Spenser. To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. -- To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites,
and to live
in sin. Rom. viii. 1.
-- To walk after the Spirit (Script.),
to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. -- To walk by faith (Script.),
to live in the firm belief of the
gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7. -- To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. -- To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3. -- To walk in the light (Script.),
to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its
consolations. 1 John i.
7. -- To walk over, in racing, to go
over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is
no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. -- To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. --
To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.
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