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Stalk
Stalk Stalk, n.
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.
Stalk
Stalk Stalk, v. t.
To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the
purpose of killing, as game.
As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly
like to stalking a deer. --Sir W.
Scott.
Stalk
Stalk Stalk, n.
A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he
gone by our watch. --Shak.
The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.
--Spenser.
StalkStalk Stalk, n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, 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.
2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a
quill. --Grew.
3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling
the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices
spring.
4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]
To climd by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer.
5. (Zo["o]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.
6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core
to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Stalk borer (Zo["o]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.
Meaning of Stalk from wikipedia
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Stalk or
stalking may
refer to:
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unwanted and/or
repeated surveillance or
contact by an
individual or
group toward another person.
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interrelated to har****ment...
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- "Corn
stalk" or "Cornstalk" may
refer to: The stem of a
maize plant Dracaena fragrans or
cornstalk dracaena, a
flowering plant Cornstalk (Shawnee leader)...
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Night Stalker(s) or Nightstalker(s) may
refer to:
Richard Ramirez (1960–2013),
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- Gang
stalking or group-
stalking is a set of ****cutory
beliefs in
which those affected believe they are
being followed,
stalked, and har****ed by a large...
- The
connecting stalk, or body
stalk, is an
embryonic structure that is
formed by the
third w**** of
development and
connects the
embryo to its s**** of...
- The
pituitary stalk, also
known as the
infundibular stalk, infundibulum, or Fenderson's funnel, is the
connection between the
hypothalamus and the posterior...
- In mathematics, the
stalk of a
sheaf is a
mathematical construction capturing the
behaviour of a
sheaf around a
given point.
Sheaves are
defined on open...
