stalk

stalk is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
2. noun. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
3. noun. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
4. noun. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
5. noun. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
6. noun. A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
7. noun. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
8. noun. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
9. noun. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
10. intransitive verb. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
11. intransitive verb. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
12. intransitive verb. 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.
13. transitive verb. To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
14. noun. A high, proud, stately step or walk.
15. noun. a stiff or threatening gait
16. noun. the act of following prey stealthily

    Synonyms: stalking

17. noun. a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush

    Synonyms: stalking

18. noun. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

    Synonyms: stem

19. noun. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

    Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble

20. verb. walk stiffly
21. verb. go through (an area) in search of prey

    "stalk the woods for deer"

22. verb. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

    "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"

    "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

    Synonyms: haunt

Synonyms

stalking, stem, chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble, haunt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stalk:

talks

Common word forms

stalks, stalked, stalker, stalking, stalkable, stalkless

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