Definitions for Stalk

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Stalk stalk

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IPA: /stɔk/

Stalk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Stalk (aklst).

Definitions for Stalk

noun

1. the stem or main axis of a plant.
2. any slender supporting or connecting part of a plant, as the petiole of a leaf, the peduncle of a flower, or the funicle of an ovule.
3. a similar structural part of an animal.
4. a stem, shaft, or slender supporting part of anything.
5. Automotive. a slender lever, usually mounted on or near the steering wheel, that is used by the driver to control a signal or function:
6. an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like:
7. a slow, stiff stride or gait.

verb (used with object)

1. to pursue (game, a person, etc.) stealthily.
2. to proceed through (an area) in search of prey or quarry:
3. to proceed or spread through in a steady or sinister manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to pursue or approach prey, quarry, etc., stealthily.
2. to walk with measured, stiff, or haughty strides:
3. to proceed in a steady, deliberate, or sinister manner:
4. Obsolete. to walk or go stealthily along.

Origin of Stalk

1275-1325; Middle English stalke, apparently equivalent to Old English stal(u) stave + -k diminutive suffix

Examples for Stalk

Plus, where else can you stalk your kids and go on tour with Snoop Dogg at the same time?

The girl took up a stalk of grass and nibbled it in laughing meditation.

Its flower is on the top of the stalk, which is sometimes eight feet high.

When he at last tears it from the earth, its “stalk was all frayed and the flower itself no longer seemed so fresh and beautiful.”

Some lives have not even a stalk on which fruits could hang, even if they did grow in five minutes.

They go to Paris, but never leave the underground metro station, where they stalk the metro mall shops.

When he could no longer endure, he would get up and stalk determinedly away from them.

Then at last she reached forth her hand and broke the lily from its stalk.

Traffickers often continue to harass and stalk their former captives via phone and in person.

Famine will stalk the land and as many as seven million people will confront extreme food insecurity—in short, starvation.