/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Walk (in Hudibras)
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is Colonel Hewson, so called from Gayton’s tract.
To walk. This is a remarkable word. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon wealcan (to roll); whence wealcere, a fuller of cloth. In Percy’s Reliques we read—
“She cursed the weaver and the walker,
The cloth that they had wrought.”
To walk, therefore, is to roll along, as the machine in felting hats or fulling cloth.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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