Noun
a stiff or threatening gait

Noun
the act of following prey stealthily

Noun
a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush

Noun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Verb
walk stiffly

Verb
go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for deer"

Verb
follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

n.
The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

n.
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

n.
That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.

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.

n.
A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

n.
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

n.
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

n.
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

v. i.
To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

v. i.
To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.

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.

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.

Stalk

To climd by the rungs and the stalks.

Stalk

Into the chamber he stalked him full still.

[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed.

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.

With manly mien he stalked along the ground.

Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean.

I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.

Stalk

As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.

Stalk

Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.

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

To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

A high, proud, stately step or walk.