Stalk

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  • intransitive verb. To pursue or track (prey) stealthily.
  • intransitive verb. To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement.
  • intransitive verb. To go through (an area) in pursuit of prey or quarry.
  • intransitive verb. To walk with a stiff, haughty, or angry gait.
  • intransitive verb. To move threateningly or menacingly.
  • intransitive verb. To track prey or quarry.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A stem or main axis of a herbaceous plant.
  • noun. A stem or similar structure that supports a plant part such as a flower, flower cluster, or leaf.
  • noun. A slender or elongated support or structure, as one that holds up an organ or another body part.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The pursuit of game by stealthy approach or under cover.
  • noun. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
  • To walk cautiously or stealthily; steal along; creep.
  • To steal up to game under cover of something else; hunt game by approaching stealthily and warily behind a cover.
  • To walk with slow, dignified strides; pace in a lofty, imposing manner.
  • In sporting, to pursue stealthily, or behind a cover; follow warily for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • noun. The stem or main axis of a plant; that part of a plant which rises directly from the root, and which usually supports the leaves, flowers, and fruit: as, a stalk of wheat or hemp.
  • noun. The pedicel of a flower or the peduncle of a flower-cluster (flower-stalk), the petiole of a leaf (leafstalk), the stipe of an ovary, etc., or any similar supporting organ; in mosses, a seta.
  • noun. A straw.
  • noun. In architecture, an ornament in the Corinthian capital which resembles the stalk of a plant, and is sometimes fluted. From it the volutes or helices spring. Compare caulis and cauliculus.
  • noun. One of the upright side-pieces of a ladder, in which the rounds or steps are placed.
  • noun. The shaft or handle of anything, especially when slender, likened to the stalk of a plant; the stem: as, the stalk of a wine-glass; the stalk of a tobacco-pipe.
  • noun. In zoology, some part or organ like a stalk; a stem; a stipe.
  • noun. A tall chimney, as of a furnace, factory, or laboratory.
  • noun. In founding, an iron rod armed with spikes, used to form the nucleus of a core.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • transitive verb. To follow (a person) persistently, with or without attempts to evade detection.
  • noun. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
  • noun. The act or process of stalking.
  • intransitive verb. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
  • intransitive verb. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
  • intransitive verb. To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The stem or main axis of a plant
  • noun. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
  • noun. That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
  • noun. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  • noun. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
  • noun. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  • noun. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  • noun. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • noun. the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The longish piece that supports the seed-carrying parts of a plant.
  • verb. To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  • verb. To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment (Wikipedia).
  • noun. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  • noun. A hunt.
  • verb. To walk haughtily.
  • Word Usage
    "Maybe there are, but hey, I'm not in their world and such prigginess as they and theirs soon won't be in our world -- their stalk is too spindly."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    sneak  
    cross-reference
    Form
    stalked  stalking  
    has_topic
    Celebrity  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chase  follow  following  gait  pursual  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Maroc  Salk  Sauk  balk  calk  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bud  clump  creeper  crop  fern  
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