STALK

noun a high, proud, stately step or walk.

2. stalk ·noun one of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

3. stalk ·noun the petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

4. stalk ·add. ·noun the act or process of stalking.

5. stalk ·noun the peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

6. stalk ·noun a stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

7. stalk ·noun that which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.

8. stalk ·noun the narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

9. stalk ·noun an iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

10. stalk ·vt to approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

11. stalk ·noun the stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

12. stalk ·vi to walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.

13. stalk ·noun an ornament in the corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

14. stalk ·vi to walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner;

— sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

15. stalk ·vi 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.