Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WALK, n. [wauk.]

1. The act of walking; the act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.
2. The act of walking for air or exercise; as, a rooming stalk; an evening walk. – Pope.
3. Manner of walking; gait; step. We often know a person in a distant apartment by his walk.
4. Length of way or circuit through which one walks; or a place for walking; as, a long walk; a short walk. The gardens of the Tuileries and of the Luxemburgh are very pleasant walks.
5. An avenue set with trees. – Milton.
6. Way; road; range; place of wandering. The mountains are his walk. – Sandys. The starry walks above. – Dryden.
7. Region; space. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. – Pope.
8. Course of life or pursuit. This is not within the walk of the historian.
9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped.
10. A fish. [A mistake for whelk.] – Ainsworth.
11. In the West Indies, a plantation of canes, &c. – Edwards, W. Indies. A sheep walk, so called, is high and dry land where sheep are pastured.