“walketh” is a form of
walk
/wɔːk/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms walks walking walked walkest walkedst walketh walke
- verb (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. “To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.”
- verb (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. “If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.”
- verb (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. “If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.”
- verb (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- verb (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking. “I walk two miles to school every day.”
- verb (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk. “I walk the dog every morning.”
- verb (intransitive, with in) To appear in a parade. “Those who wish to walk in the parade this fall should sign up now.”
- verb (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- noun A trip made by walking. “I take a walk every morning.”
- noun A distance walked. “It’s a long walk from my house to the library.”
- noun (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- noun A manner of walking; a person's style of walking. “The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.”
- noun A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- noun (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life. “people of different ages and walks”
- noun (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- noun (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls". “The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.”
- proper noun A surname.
- noun (biochemistry) A particular histidine kinase
Synonyms
be acquit be get stolen get nick get pinch full waulk get off go free ambulate navigate pedestrianize raik stroll hike trek gait footpath path pavement walking base on balls pass manner of walking walkway paseo walk of life take the air
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Etymology
From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Dutch zwalken (“to walk around”), German walken (“to full, tan, walk; to knead; to beat up”), Danish valke (“to full, walk, waulk”), Faroese válka (“make dirty; stir up dirt”), Swedish valka (“to full cloth, to waulk”); also Latin valgus (“bent out; bandy, bow-legged”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.
From Middle English walc, walk, walke, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“rolling, turning; motion, surging”), from Proto-Germanic *walką.
Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”).
* As a German surname, variant of Walke.
* As an English surname, from the noun and verb walk.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
- verb To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
- verb 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.
Etymology [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. valka 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. sq. root130.]
Etymology [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “walk”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details