walker
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kər 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.
4.
a person or thing that walks or likes to walk: He's a great walker.
5.
Theater Slang. an extra or supernumerary.
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —n | |
| 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 |
| Walker (ˈwɔːkə) | |
| —n | |
| 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. | John. born 1952, New Zealand middle-distance runner, the first athlete to run one hundred sub-four-minute miles |
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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Example sentences
For every knuckle-walker capable of tool use, there must have been someone who kept hitting his thumb with his hammer.
He refused entreaties to use a walker, feeling that it made his balance worse.
Theoretical walker struts its energy-efficient stuff.
But short legs slow a walker down, and so does low gravity.
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