[WALKING vbl. sb.1 and ppl. a.] a. = PEDOMETER. † b. (See quot. 1744.)
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Perambulator, a walking-wheel, a rolling Wheel made of Wood or Iron, with a Movement, a Face divided like a Clock and Indexes, to shew how many Yards, Poles, Furlongs and Miles one goes in driving it before him.
1744. Desaguliers, Course Exper. Philos., II. 417. Then the Wheel being also a walking Wheel, the same Men get into it, in which case they have Power sufficient to raise the small Goods 5 or 6 times faster than the heaviest.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Walking-wheel, a pedometer.
