stalk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
arts
biology
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English stalke, stelke, stalk, perhaps from Old English *stealc, *stielc, *stealuc, from Proto-West Germanic *staluk, *stalik, from Proto-Germanic *stalukaz, *stalikaz, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *stalô, *staluz (“support, stem, stalk”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch staal (“sample”), steel (“stem”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål stilk (“stalk, stem”), Faroese stjølur (“bottom part of a sheaf”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”), Norwegian Nynorsk stilk, stylk (“stalk, stem”), styl (“lower part of a straw”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”).
Inflected forms:
form: stalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stalks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stalking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stalked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stalked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The stem or main axis of a plant.
pos: noun
examples: a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
gloss: The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
pos: noun
examples: grape stalks
gloss: Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
pos: noun
examples: they appear to be made up of little Bladders , like those in the Plume or Stalk of a Quill
gloss: An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
pos: noun
gloss: A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
pos: noun
gloss: The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
pos: noun
gloss: The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
pos: noun
gloss: An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
pos: noun
gloss: Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
pos: noun
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
gloss: To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My ex-girlfriend is stalking me.
villages stalked by the threat of famine
gloss: To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
O ay, stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits
gloss: To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The king[…]crept under the shoulder of his led horse;[…]"I must stalk," said he.
One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
gloss: Of a person's social media activity: to look through thoroughly or obsessively; to keep tabs on, generally avoiding contact.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: Coordinate term: lurk
Hate when I'm stalking someone's Insta and I like one of their old pics. Makes me wanna burrow underground n' hibernate for a season or two.
Derived words: beanstalk
chimney stalk
cornstalk
destalk
e-stalk
eyestalk
footstalk
Google stalk
gout stalk
haystalk
jade stalk
laughing stalk
leafstalk
rootstalk
rose twisted-stalk
seedstalk
stalkborer
stalkette
stalk-eyed
stalk-eyed fly
stalkish
stalkless
stalklet
stalklike
sugar cane stalk
twisted-stalk
vinestalk
wheatstalk
facestalk
prestalk
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: varsi
lang: Finnish
word: ruoto