Definition of John walker

1. Noun. New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952).

Exact synonyms: Walker
Generic synonyms: Four-minute Man

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Walker

John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill
John Thomas Scopes
John Tradescant
John Trumbull
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tyler
John Tyndall
John Uhler
John Updike
John Van Vleck
John Vanbrugh
John Venn
John Wain
John Walker
John Wanamaker
John Wayne
John Webster
John Wesley
John Wickliffe
John Wiclif
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Booth
John William Strutt
John Witherspoon
John Wyclif
John Wycliffe
John dory
John le Carre

Literary usage of John walker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"He then conceived the Idea that she had run away and married john walker, and to verify this surmise he made investigation in the ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
""john walker had of hys owne and Eleanor Defford, Willm. ... Walker, sen., and john walker. " John Leche had of hys owne and of Thomas Walker. ..."

3. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1855)
"... by five several and respective indictments, for wilful and corrupt perjury, to which said several and respective indictments the said john walker, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1839)
"john walker, APPELLANT, vs. GEORGE PARKER AND OTHERS, APPELLEES. ... The appellant, john walker, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of the county of ..."

5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1823)
"The next witness is as to john walker. Richard Lee is called to prove him elsewhere ; he says that he knows john walker of Long- royd very well, ..."

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