walker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Walk=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

walker, n. 

•  One who walks; a pedestrian.  [1913 Webster]
•  That with which one walks; a foot.  [1913 Webster]

  "Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown."  [1913 Webster]
•  A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fuller of cloth.  [1913 Webster]

  "She cursed the weaver and the walker
  The cloth that had wrought."  [1913 Webster]
•  Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.  [1913 Webster]
•  A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters(4} and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called walking boss.  [RH]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

walker, n.
1 a person or animal that walks.
2 a a wheeled or footed framework in which a baby can learn to walk. b = walking frame.

THESAURUS

walker

ambulator, baby buggy, baby carriage, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, gocart, hiker, hitchhiker, hoofer, infantryman, jaywalker, marcher, paddlefoot, pedestrian, perambulator, peripatetic, pram, stroller, trailsman, tramper, walkist

ROGET THESAURUS

walker

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.