Stalk

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Etymology 1

Template:Root From Template:Inh, Template:M, Template:M, perhaps from Template:Inh, Template:M, Template:M, from Template:Inh, Template:M, from Template:Inh, Template:M, diminutive of Template:Der, Template:M, from Template:Der. Cognate with Template:Cog in Template:M, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog.

Related also to Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:M, Template:Cog, Template:M+, Template:M+, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog.

Noun

1. The stem or main axis of a plant.

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2. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.

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3. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
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4. Template:Lb An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
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   1. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
   2. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
   3. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
7. Template:Lb An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
8. Template:Lb Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf $ℱ$ on a space $X$, and a point $x$ in $X$, the direct limit of the sections of $F$ on the open neighborhoods of $x$ ordered by reverse inclusion. See Template:Pedia

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Etymology 2

From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh (as in Template:M, Template:M), from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh (compare Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog dialectal Template:M), from Template:M, Template:M (compare Template:M+, Template:M+, Template:M), from Template:Der, Template:M (compare Template:M+, Template:M+).

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Verb

1. Template:Senseid Template:Lb To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
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2. Template:Lb To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Template:W

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3. Template:Lb To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
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4. Template:Lb To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
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Noun

1. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
2. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
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Etymology 3

Attested 1530 in the sense "to walk haughtily", perhaps from Template:Der, from Template:Der, Template:M; see above.

Verb

1. Template:Lb To walk haughtily.
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Noun

1. A haughty style of walking.

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