Definitions for the word "walk" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To move off; to depart.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
Conduct; course of action; behavior.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. v.
1 a progress by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once. B (of a quadruped) go with the slowest gait. 2 a travel or go on foot. B take exercise in this way. 3 traverse on foot at walking speed, tread the floor or surface of. 4 cause to walk with one (walk the dog). n. 1 a act of walking, the ordinary human gait. B slowest gait of an animal. C person''s manner of walking. 2 a distance which can be walked in a (usu. Specified) time (ten minutes'' walk from here). B excursion on foot. 3 place or track intended or suitable for walking. walk all over colloq. 1 defeat easily. 2 take advantage of. Walk away from 1 easily outdistance. 2 refuse to become involved with. Walk away with colloq. = walk off with. Walk into colloq. 1 encounter through unwariness. 2 get (a job) easily. Walk off with colloq. 1 steal. 2 win easily. Walk on air feel elated.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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