ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo reach base by being pitched four balls.

Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

• If we don't bolt the washing machine down, it's going to walk across the room.

To cause something to move in such a way.

• I carefully walked the ladder along the wall.

To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.

To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

• I walked the streets aimlessly.
• Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.

aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.

• Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.

To leave, resign.

• If we don't offer him more money he'll walk.
• He will make their cowes and garrans to walk.

To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

• The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.

To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

• We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.

To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.

• October 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached at Stamford, link I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
• There have been reports of cases where, in the event of a girl having died, a man was chosen to go through the marriage ceremony and even have intercourse with the body, before burial, so that she might not "walk".

obsoleteTo be in motion; to act; to move.

• her toung did walke / In fowle reproch.
• I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.

historicalTo put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.

informalTo move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.

engineeringmachiningmechanical-engineeringTo tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)

gamespaintballTo pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.

In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.

An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.

• Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour.
• For half a mile from Vaughansfield the road, now a mere track, leads through pastures and a coffee-walk to the foot of a very steep hill […]

historicalA place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.

historicalAn enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.

graph-theorymathematicssciencesA sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.

Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

• And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it.

datedslangbusinessfinanceA cheque drawn on a bank that was not a member of the London Clearing and whose sort code was allocated on a one-off basis; they had to be "walked" (hand-delivered by messengers).