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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A distance walked.
  • A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare '''trail'''.
  • A trip made by walking.
  • 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".
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • colloquial euphemistic Of an object, to be stolen.
  • colloquial legal To go free, particularly when actually guilty.
  • colloquial To leave, resign.
  • 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 knows he is out.
  • intransitive To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pairs of feet, in the case of quadrupeds) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare '''run'''.
  • baseball To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • transitive To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • transitive To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • transitive To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • transitive To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • transitive To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • transitive To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

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