Walking | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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walking cornet
An ensign of foot. ...

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walking poulterer
One who steals fowls, and hawks them from door to door. ...

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walking stationer
A hawker of pamphlets, &c. ...

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walking-leaf
n. See phasmid. ...

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walking-stick
n. See phasmid. ...

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walking ticket
Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

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walking papers
Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

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walking the plank
A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, an...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
palm, walking-stick
n. a Queensland plant, Bacularia monostachya, F. v. M., N.O. Palmeae.So called because the stem is ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
walking-stick palm
n. See under palm, walking-stick. ...

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walking a plank
An obsolete method of destroying people in mutiny and piracy, under a plea of avoiding the penalty o...

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walking speaking-trumpet
A midshipman repeating quarter-deck orders. ...

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walking up against the wall
To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
walking away with the anchor
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

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