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Definitions and meaning of stalk

stalk

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stôk, IPA^(key): /stɔːk/
• (General American) enPR: stôk, IPA^(key): /stɔk/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /stɑk/
• Homophone: stork (non-rhotic accents), Homophone: stock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Etymology 1

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”). Cognate with Old High German *stelh in wazzarstelh (“wagtail”), Danish stilk (“stalk, stem”), Swedish stjälk (“stalk, stem”), Icelandic stilkur (“stalk, stem”).

Related also to Middle English stale (“ladder upright, stalk”), Old English stalu (“wooden upright”), Middle Low German stal, stale (“chair leg”), Old English stela (“stalk”), Dutch steel (“stalk”), German Stiel (“stalk”), Albanian shtalkë (“crossbeam, board used as a door hinge”), Welsh telm (“frond”), Ancient Greek στειλειή (steileiḗ, “beam”), Old Armenian ստեղն (stełn, “trunk, stalk”).

Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

1. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
4. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
6. (zoology)
   1. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
   2. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
   3. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
7. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
8. (mathematics, sheaf theory) 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 ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}}$ on a space ${\displaystyle X}$, and a point ${\displaystyle x}$ in ${\displaystyle X}$, the direct limit of the sections of ${\displaystyle F}$ on the open neighborhoods of ${\displaystyle x}$ ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Etymology 2

From Middle English stalken, from Old English *stealcian (as in bestealcian (“to move stealthily”), stealcung (“stalking”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stalukōn, from Proto-Germanic *stalukōną (“to stalk, move stealthily”) (compare Dutch stelkeren, stolkeren (“to tip-toe, tread carefully”), Danish stalke (“to high step, stalk”), Norwegian dialectal stalka (“to trudge”)), from *stalkaz, *stelkaz (compare Old English stealc (“steep”), Old Norse stelkr, stjalkr (“knot (bird), red sandpiper”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telg, *(s)tolg- (compare Middle Irish tolg (“strength”), Lithuanian stalgùs (“stiff, defiant, proud”)).

Alternate etymology connects Proto-Germanic *stalkōną to a frequentative form of *stelaną (“to steal”).

Verb

stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)

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

4. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
5. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.

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Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

1. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
2. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.

Related terms

• stalker

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Etymology 3

Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Old English stealc (“steep”), from Proto-Germanic *stelkaz, *stalkaz (“high, lofty, steep, stiff”); see above.

Verb

stalk (third-person singular simple present stalks, present participle stalking, simple past and past participle stalked)

1. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

Translations

Noun

stalk (plural stalks)

1. A haughty style of walking.

Anagrams

• Kastl, talks

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Pronunciation

Verb

stalk

1. inflection of stalken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative