stalk > define

noun

• Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
  • synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble
• A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ.
  • synonyms: stem
• A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush.
  • synonyms: stalking, still hunt
• The act of following prey stealthily.
  • synonyms: stalking
• A stiff or threatening gait.
  • synonyms: angry walk

verb

• Walk stiffly.
• Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.
  • usage: "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"
  • synonyms: haunt
• Go through (an area) in search of prey.
  • usage: "stalk the woods for deer"

• (n.) The act or process of stalking.
• (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• (n.) The petiole, pedicel or peduncle, of a plant.
• (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
• (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
• (v.i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
• (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
• (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
• (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• (v.t.) To approach under cover of a screen or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
• (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
• (v.i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
• (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.