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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
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- 1noun
The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
- 2noun
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
- 3noun
That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
- 4noun
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- 5noun
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- 6noun
A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
- 7noun
The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- 8noun
The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- 9noun
An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- 10intransitive verb
To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
- 11intransitive verb
To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
- 12intransitive 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.
- 13transitive verb
To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
- 14noun
A high, proud, stately step or walk.
- 15noun
a stiff or threatening gait
- 16noun
the act of following prey stealthily
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- 17noun
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
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- 18noun
a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
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- 19noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- 20verb
walk stiffly
- 21verb
go through (an area) in search of prey
"stalk the woods for deer"
- 22verb
follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
"her ex-boyfriend stalked her"
"the ghost of her mother haunted her"
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