WALK (2)

walk (2). Walk, n. the act of walking, gait, path to walk in, in W. Indies, a plantation

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Walk, v. t. 1. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round. Keble. 2. 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. “ I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.” Shak.
3. 3. [[AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; — an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.