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walke

walke is the obsolete spelling of walk.

Meaning of walk

Verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

  1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
    • To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
    • If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.
    Synonyms:
    be acquit
  3. (colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
    • If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.
    Synonyms:
    be, get stolen, get nick, get pinch
  4. (intransitive) 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 believes he is out.
  5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
    • I walk two miles to school every day.
  6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
    • I walk the dog every morning.

See all 40 meanings of walk

Proper noun capitalized: Walke

Walke (plural Walkes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of walke

Verb
third-person singular presentwalkes
present participlewalking
past participlewalked
pastwalked
Proper noun
pluralWalkes

Origin of walke

* As a German occupational surname for a fuller, from the verb walken (“to full, tan”), compare Walkmühle (English waulkmill). * As an English surname, variant of Walk.

Words formed from walke

Questions about walke

What does walke mean?
Walke means a surname.
What is walke the obsolete spelling of?
Walke is the obsolete spelling of walk.
What part of speech is walke?
Walke is a proper noun.

Words near walke in the dictionary

  1. walkboard
  2. walkboards
  3. Walkden
  4. Walkdens
  5. walkdown
  6. walke
  7. walke-street
  8. walke-streets
  9. walked
  10. walked a straight line
  11. walked all over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: walke (page history and authors); Walke (page history and authors); walk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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