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walter

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Walter is a British television drama first broadcast on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982. Based on a 1978 novel of the same name by David Cook , it was the first ever Film on Four .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Old North French Waltier (Old French Gualtier , Modern French Gautier ), of Germanic origin and cognate with Old High German Walthari , Walthere , literally "ruler of the army," from waltan "to rule" (see wield ) + hari "host, army" ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete dialect UK Scotland English) To roll or wallow; to welter.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Walter \Wal"ter\, v. i. [See Welter .] To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Usage examples of walter.

Twitch: Brad tends to vocally anagrammatize, scrambling letters within a word rather than scrambling the order of the words themselves like Walter.

Since Walter was such a fund of anatomic and physiologic pathology, he was presented at all the conferences with everyone offering various opinions.

Tom remembered that he and Cathy had agreed in a whisper that Walter had this slightly annoying body language, as if he were conferring some kind of favour and wished the whole thing could be dealt with as quickly as possible.

To rid himself of excess weight, Walter tore off his basnet and his coat of mail.

Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer did those blatantly one-sided programs about gay adoption and gay parenting?

Freya and Clem Gaines, Jean and Jack Blau, Silvanus Angst, Walter and Janice Remington, Stuart Marks, Yule Marks, and over here is your Bluff-partner, Pete Garden.

Walter Ryessman had been made Burgomaster because of his long and faithful membership of the Party.

Among his treasures was a medal of honor presented to him by Congress for twice saving the life of Inza Burrage, a pretty girl who lived in Fardale, and whose brother, Walter, was a cadet at the academy.

I beseech thee, Cuthbert, that the news came from me, for temperate as Sir Walter is at most times, he would, methinks, give me short shift did he know that the wagging of my tongue might have given warning through which the outlaws of the Chase should slip through his fingers.

You had best, methinks, be off before Sir Walter and his heavily-armed men are here.

Communications Biophysics Laboratory, a new multidisciplinary venture organized by Walter Kosenblith, an Austrian-born engineer who came to MIT from Harvard in 1951.

Sir Walter Palgrave, or am I to begin, as it were, with a clean slate?

You are behaving, however, as if tracing the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave were a matter of considerable urgency.

I quite appreciate that the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave, if of a mercenary disposition, would wish to ensure that the identity of the settlor was never discovered and that the trust company was therefore unable to exercise its discretion in accordance with his wishes.

First, he or she must be one of the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave, or so closely connected with one of them as to have an interest in their financial advancement.