Definitions for stalks

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IPA: /stɔk/

Stalks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in stalks (aklsst).

Definitions for stalks

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 stalks

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

Examples for stalks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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