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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Walk \Walk\, v. t.
1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to
perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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As we walk our earthly round. --Keble.
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2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow
pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. `` I will
rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.''
--Shak.
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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.]
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4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train
(puppies) in a walk. [Cant]
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5. 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.
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.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Walk \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.
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