Stalk
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act or process of stalking.
(2): ( n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
(3): ( v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
(4): ( v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
(5): ( n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
(6): ( n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
(7): ( n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
(8): ( n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
(9): ( v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
(10): ( v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; - sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
(11): ( n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
(12): ( n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(13): ( n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(14): ( n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
(15): ( n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
King James Dictionary [2]
Stalk n. G., a handle, and a stalk or stem. Gr. from the root of stall to set.
1. The stem, culm or main body of an herbaceous plant. Thus we speak of a stalk of wheat, rye or oats, the stalks of maiz or hemp. The stalk of herbaceous plants, answers to the stem of shrubs and tress, and denotes that which is set, the fixed part of a plant, its support or it is a shoot. 2. The pedicle of a flower, or the peduncle that supports the fructification of a plant. 3. The stem of a quill.
STALK,
1. To walk with high and proud steps usually implying the affectation of dignity, and hence the word usually expresses dislike. The poets however use the word to express dignity of step.
With manly mein he stalkd along the ground.
Then stalking through the deep he fords the ocean.
2. It is used with some insinuation of contempt or abhorrence.
Stalks close behind her, like a witchs fiend, pressing to be employd.
Tis not to stalk about and draw fresh air from time to time.
3. To walk behind a stalking horse or behind a cover.
The king crept under the shoulder of his led horse, and said, I must stalk.
STALK, n. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
stôk : In Genesis 41:5 , Genesis 41:22 is for ḳānēh , "cane"; in Joshua 2:6 for עץ , ‛ēc , "wood." In Hosea 8:7 , the Revised Version margin has "stalk" for קמה , ḳāmāh , "that which stands." The Revised Version's "standing grain" is due to this meaning of ḳāmāh in Exodus 22:6 , etc., but this translation spoils the figure. The meaning is, "They sow the wind, a worthless sowing, for such seed produces no stalk, it yields no grain."
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( עֵוֹ , Ets, a Tree or Wood [as often]; hence the woody or fibrous part of the flax stem, Joshua 2:6; קָנֶה , Kaneh, a Reed [as often]; hence the strawy Stem of grain, Genesis 41:5; Genesis 41:22; קָמָה , Kamah, the Halm of the same, Hosea 8:7). (See Plant).
