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Stalk   /stɔk/   Listen
Stalk

noun
1.
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.  Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble.
2.
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ.  Synonym: stem.
3.
A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush.  Synonyms: stalking, still hunt.
4.
The act of following prey stealthily.  Synonym: stalking.
5.
A stiff or threatening gait.  Synonym: angry walk.
verb
(past & past part. stalked; pres. part. stalking)
1.
Walk stiffly.
2.
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.  Synonym: haunt.  "The ghost of her mother haunted her"
3.
Go through (an area) in search of prey.



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"Stalk" Quotes from Famous Books



... inserted near the ground (Fig. 17). This bud is deftly cut from the current year's growth of the desired variety; it grows in the axil of a leaf (Fig. 15). The leaf is removed but a small part of the stalk or petiole is retained with the bud to serve as a handle. A boat-shaped or shield-shaped piece of bark is removed with the bud. This piece, known technically as a "bud," is inserted in an incision on the stock, so that ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
 
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... Blivar! But, gentlemen of the jury, if you convict my client, his children will be doomed to pine away in a state of hopeless matrimony; and his beautiful wife i will stand lone and delighted like a dried up mullen-stalk in a sheep-pasture. Anonymous. ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
 
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... what's that? your second maydenhead: 60 And what is that? a word: the word is gone, The thing remaines; the rose is pluckt, the stalk Abides: an easie losse where no lack's found. Beleeve it, there's as small lack in the losse As there is paine ith' losing. Archers ever 65 Have two strings to a bow, and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women) ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
 
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... grapes also took the first prize at Rotherham, at a competition open to all England. He was extremely successful in producing melons, having invented a method of suspending them in baskets of wire gauze, which, by relieving the stalk from tension, allowed nutrition to proceed more freely, and better enabled the ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles
 
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... turned them from God. He practised idolatry with a baked stone, and prostrated himself before his own idol; and finally, as a fit punishment, he was first stoned to death, upon the eve of the passover, and then hung up upon a cross made of a cabbage-stalk, after which, Onkelos, the fallen Titus' sister's son, conjured him up out of hell." [Footnote: Although the Jews deny that Christ is named in the Talmud, saying that another Jesus is meant, yet Eisenmenger has fully proved the contrary, on the most ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
 
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