WALKED
Verb
walked
simple past tense and past participle of walk
Source: Wiktionary
WALK
Walk (wask), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked; p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.]
Etym: [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.]
1. 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.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom
of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29.
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to
go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29.
Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a
brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never
four.
2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's
exercise; to ramble.
3. 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.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk
again. Shak.
When was it she last walked Shak.
4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did
walk in foul reproach." Spenser.
Do you think I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson.
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.
5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
Jer. Taylor.
6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.]
He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser.
To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.
– To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites,
and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1.
– To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels
and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1.
– To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the
gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor.
v. 7.
– To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and
sin. 1 John i. 6.
– To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which
is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3.
– To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of
religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7.
– To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said
of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain
an easy victory in any contest.
– To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe
afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2.
– To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands,
and have communion with him.
Walk, v. t.
1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as,
to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round. Keble.
2. 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.
3. Etym: [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]
Definition: To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
[Obs. or Scot.] 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.
Walk, n.
1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace;
advance without running or leaping.
2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk;
an evening walk.
3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a
distance by his walk.
4. 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.
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and
bowers. Milton.
He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer.
Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain.
Bryant.
5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk
of the historian.
The mountains are his walks. Sandys.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope.
6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.
7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a
milkman's walk. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition