[-ING1.] The action of WALK v.2; fulling.
1582. Hakluyt, Voy. (1599), II. 162. The faults in Walking, Rowing, and Burling,… are to be knowen to the merchant.
1698. [See b.]
b. Comb.: † walking-mill = WALK-MILL 1; † walking-pin, in hat-manuf. (see quot.); † walking-staff, a fuller’s staff.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., iii. 54. Case Hardning … is used for Tobacco Boxes, Cod-peece Buttons, Heads for walking staves, &c.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 291/1. The Walking-pin is a four square Iron,… with pointed ends; upon this the Workman rowls his Hat often times, and makes use of it as a rowling-pin, to lay his stuff close together in the walking of the Hat.
1839. Whistle-Binkie, Ser. II. 116. Like the thud o’ a waukin mill beetle.
