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Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.

To walk with a jerk. [Prov. Eng.]

-- Tackle board, Tackle post (Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.

or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.

The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.

Private; confidential; familiar. She avoided tête-à-tête walks with him. C. Kingsley.

meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope.

To step or walk on tiptoe.

To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

t incline toward the other. -- To toe out, to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot. toe in, to align the front wheels so that they point slightly toward each other.

place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton. -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.

To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple. [Colloq.]

To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. We do tracethis alley up and down. Shak.

One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.

To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.

To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.