Word Meanings - PEDESTRIANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

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• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• WALK
  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; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• WALKYR
  See VALKYRIA
• TRAVEL-TAINTED
  Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.
• WALKABLE
  Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. Swift.
• WALKER
  A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 4. Etym: (more info) 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. 2. That with which one walks; a foot. Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.
• TRAVELED
  Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.
• WALKING
  a. & n. from Walk, v. Walking beam. See Beam, 10. -- Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. -- Walking fern. See Walking leaf, below. -- Walking fish , any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus,
• WALK-OVER
  In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• ROPEWALKER
  A ropedancer.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• UNTRAVELED
  1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. 2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.
• ROPEWALK
  A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
• BY-WALK
  secluded or private walk. He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden.