'Stalk' definitions:

Definition of 'stalk'

(from WordNet)
noun
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble]
noun
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem]
noun
A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush [syn: stalk, stalking, still hunt]
noun
The act of following prey stealthily [syn: stalk, stalking]
noun
A stiff or threatening gait [syn: stalk, angry walk]
verb
Walk stiffly
verb
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" [syn: haunt, stalk]
verb
Go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for deer"

Definition of 'Stalk'

From: GCIDE
  • Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.]
  • 1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Into the chamber he stalked him full still. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. [1913 Webster]
  • The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • With manly mien he stalked along the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Merivale. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stalk'

From: GCIDE
  • Stalk \Stalk\ (st[add]k), n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. stael, stel, a stalk. See Stale a handle, Stall.]
  • 1. (Bot.) (a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. (b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • To climb by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) (a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. (b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. (c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. [1913 Webster]
  • Stalk borer (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stalk'

From: GCIDE
  • Stalk \Stalk\ (st[add]k), v. t.
  • 1. To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. [1913 Webster]
  • As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To follow (a person) persistently, with or without attempts to evade detection; as, the paparazzi stalk celebrities to get candid photographs; obsessed fans may stalk their favorite movie stars. [PJC]

Definition of 'Stalk'

From: GCIDE
  • Stalk \Stalk\, n.
  • 1. A high, proud, stately step or walk. [1913 Webster]
  • Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The act or process of stalking.
  • When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back. --T. Roosevelt. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'stalk'

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Words containing 'Stalk'