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WALKER
Girl/Female
British, English
Occupational Name; Cloth-walker
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Fuller; Cloth Washer; One who Thickens Cloth
Boy/Male
Indian
Fast walker
Girl/Female
British, English
Occupational Name; Cloth-walker
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname, of Norman origin, for someone who was a swift walker, from Old French bon ‘good’ + pas ‘pace’. It may also have been a topographic name, with the second element used in the sense ‘passageway’. Compare Malpass.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French pied de fer ‘iron foot’, given perhaps to someone with an artificial foot or leg, or to a tireless walker or messenger.
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English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales)
English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales) : occupational name for a fuller, from an agent derivative of Middle English tuck(en) ‘to full cloth’ (Old English tūcian ‘to torment’). This was the term used for the process in the Middle Ages in southwestern England, and the surname is more common there than elsewhere. Compare Fuller and Walker.Americanized form of Jewish To(c)ker (see Tokarz).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendant of Tuachar’, a personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Tucher, from an occupational name for a cloth maker or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German tuoch ‘cloth’.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
A fast walker (name of companion)
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Traveller Walker
Boy/Male
English American
Worker in cloth.
Boy/Male
Native American
Walker.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a dresser of cloth, Old English fullere (from Latin fullo, with the addition of the English agent suffix). The Middle English successor of this word had also been reinforced by Old French fouleor, foleur, of similar origin. The work of the fuller was to scour and thicken the raw cloth by beating and trampling it in water. This surname is found mostly in southeast England and East Anglia. See also Tucker and Walker.In a few cases the name may be of German origin with the same form and meaning as 1 (from Latin fullare).Americanized version of French Fournier.Samuel Fuller (1589–1633), born in Redenhall, Norfolk, England, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a deacon of the church and until his death functioned as Plymouth Colony’s physician.
Male
English
 English name derived from the Scandinavian habitational surname Walkyr, from kiarr, WALKER means "from the wall by the marsh." English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Middle English walkere from Old English wealcere ("to walk, tread"), hence "cloth fuller."Â
Boy/Male
Muslim
Traveler, Walker
Boy/Male
Muslim
Fast walker
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Walker; Traveller
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Fast Walker; Name of Companion
Surname or Lastname
English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish
English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish : occupational name for a fuller, Middle English walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker.The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, in about 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen Co., VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from Middle English ambler ‘walker’, ‘steady-paced horse or mule’ (ultimately from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’), probably applied to someone with a steady, easy-going temperament. Reaney suggests that it may have been a facetious nickname for a fuller.Richard Ambler is recorded in MA in 1639, in the New Haven Colony by 1647, and still living in CT in 1700. Many bearers are descended from William Ambler, who was mayor of Doncaster in 1717, at least one of whose sons settled in VA.
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n.
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
n.
A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
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That with which one walks; a foot.
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One who walks; a pedestrian.
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One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker
v. t.
A fuller of cloth.
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A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
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One who walks about; a walker.
v. t.
Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.