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Definitioner
Substantiv
- The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- A hunt (of a wild animal).
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
Verb
- (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
- (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
- (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp
- (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
Exempel
- 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.
- 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.
- My ex-boyfriend is stalking me.
- [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.
- Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
- With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
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