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Step :: Step (v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps..

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse..

Run :: Run (a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog..

Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..

Stumble :: Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.

Light-heeled :: Light-heeled (a.) Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.

Beam :: Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam..

Passant :: Passant (v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised..

Gressorious :: Gressorious (a.) Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

Gradient :: Gradient (a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata..

Footpace :: Footpace (n.) A walking pace or step.

Stagger :: Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man..

Slump :: Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person..

Knock-kneed :: Knock-kneed (a.) Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.

Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger..

Foot-sore :: Foot-sore (a.) Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle..

Peripatetic :: Peripatetic (a.) Walking about; itinerant.

Park :: Park (n.) A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like..

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