Stalk

Noun

 * 1) The longish piece that supports the seed-carrying parts of a plant.

Verb

 * 1) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
 * 2) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.

Noun

 * 1) A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
 * 2) (of wild animals) A hunt.

Related terms

 * stalker

Verb

 * 1)  To walk haughtily.

Adjectives for Stalk
green; juicy; martial; tall; withered.

Verbs for Stalk
attach to—; cast away—; crush—; dry—; gather—; pile—; shake—; sickle—; — bears; —connects; —curves; —s elevate; —juts; —protrudes; —rises; —springs; — supports; —sways; — tangle; —tapers; — waves.

Adverbs for Stalk
dramatically; implacably; grimly; jauntily; nonchalantly; haughtily; stealthily; martially; vigorously; triumphantly; swaggeringly.

Thesaurus
Maypole, amble, anthrophore, axis, baluster, balustrade, banister, bar, barge, base, beat, bole, bowl along, bundle, campaign, cane, carpophore, caryatid, caudex, caulicle, caulis, chase, circuit, clump, colonnade, column, couch, course, creep, culm, dado, die, dog, domiciliary visit, drag, dragnet, drive, droop, excursion, expedition, exploration, falcon, flagstaff, flounce, flush, follow, follow a clue, follow the hounds, follow up, foot, footslog, footstalk, forage, fowl, frisk, funicule, funiculus, gait, gallop, go hunting, grand tour, gumshoe, gun, halt, haulm, haunt, hawk, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hound, house-search, hunt, hunt down, hunting, jack, jacklight, jaunt, jog, jolt, journey, jump, junket, lay wait, leafstalk, lie in wait, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, lurk, mince, mincing steps, newel-post, nightwalk, nose, nose out, outing, pace, package tour, paddle, peacock, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg, peregrination, perquisition, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, piaffe, piaffer, pier, pilaster, pile, pilgrimage, piling, pillar, pleasure trip, plinth, plod, pole, posse, post, prance, probe, progress, prowl, prowl after, pursue, pussyfoot, queen-post, quest, rack, ransacking, reed, ride to hounds, rod, roll, round trip, rubberneck tour, rummage, run, run down, run to earth, safari, sally, sashay, saunter, scape, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seedstalk, shadow, shaft, shamble, shikar, shoot, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, skulk, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, smell out, sneak, sniff out, socle, spear, spike, spire, sport, staff, stagger, stalking, stamp, stanchion, stand, standard, start, steal, stem, step, stick, still hunt, still-hunt, stipe, stock, stomp, straddle, straggle, straw, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, subbase, surbase, swagger, swank, swash, swashbuckle, swing, tail, tigella, tiptoe, tittup, toddle, tongue, totem pole, totter, tour, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail, traipse, tread, trek, trip, trot, trudge, trunk, turn, turning over, upright, velocity, voyage, waddle, walk, wamble, wiggle, wobble

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: stork (non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: stork (non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: stork (non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: stork (non-rhotic accents)
 * Homophones: stork (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1
stalke:, diminutive of stale 'ladder upright, stalk', from stalu: 'wooden upright', from  (compare Middle Low German stal, stale 'chair leg'), variant of *steluz, stelōn 'stalk' (compare Old English stela:, Dutch steel:, German Stiel:, Danish stilk:), from  (compare Welsh telm: 'frond', Ancient Greek stélos 'beam', Old Armenian ստեղն: 'trunk, stalk').

Etymology 2
stalken:, from -undefined: (as in  bestealcian 'to move stealthily', stealcung: 'stalking'), from  'to move stealthily' (compare Dutch stelkeren: 'to tip-toe, tread carefully', Danish stalke: 'to high step, stalk',  dialectal stalka: 'to trudge'), from *stalkaz, stelkaz (compare Old English stealc: 'steep', Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr 'knot (bird), red sandpiper'), from  (compare Middle Irish tolg: 'strength', Lithuanian stalgùs: 'stiff, defiant, proud').

Alternate etymology connects 'to stalk, move stealthily', to a frequentative form of  'to steal'.

Etymology 3
1530, 'to walk haughtily', perhaps from stealc: 'steep', from  'high, lofty, steep, stiff'; see above

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 莖, 茎
 * Chinese Characters: 莖, 茎
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Stiel ; Stängel
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 茎 (くき, kuki)


 * Korean: 그루 (geuru), 줄기 (julgi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: stonka
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ก้าน

Verb

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: sich anpirschen
 * Greek: καταδιώκω ύπουλα


 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: 忍び寄る
 * Russian:, подкрадываться
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: seurailla
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:, ενεδρεύω
 * Japanese: 付きまとう
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * : 偷偷靠近
 * : besluipen
 * : καταδιώξει


 * : puntare, inseguire
 * : stilk

Verb

 * Czech: vykračovat si
 * Finnish: kekkalehtia


 * German: stolzieren, einherstolzieren

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