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Stalk (st&asuml_;k), n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. stæl, 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.
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2. That which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. Grew.
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3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
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4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]
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To climb by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer.
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5. (Zo&ö;l.) (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.
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6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
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Stalk borer (Zo&ö;l.), 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.
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Stalk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st&asuml_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. stælcan, 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.
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Into the chamber he stalked him full still. Chaucer.
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[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend,
Pressing to be employed. Dryden.
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2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
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The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . “I must stalk,” said he. Bacon.
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One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.
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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.
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With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden.
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Then stalking through the deep,
He fords the ocean. Addison.
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I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. Merivale.
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Stalk (st&asuml_;k), v. t. 1. To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
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As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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Stalk, n. 1. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
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Thus twice before, . . .
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Shak.
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The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped. Spenser.
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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.
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