Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stalk \Stalk\, n.
   The act or process of stalking.

         When the stalk was over (the antelope took alarm and
         ran off before I was within rifle shot) I came back.
                                                  --T.
                                                  Roosevelt.

Stalk \Stalk\, v. t.
   To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the
   purpose of killing, as game.

         As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly
         like to stalking a deer.                 --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Stalk \Stalk\, n.
   A high, proud, stately step or walk.

         Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he
         gone by our watch.                       --Shak.

         The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.
                                                  --Spenser.

Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stalked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Stalking}.] [AS. st[ae]lcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf.
   stels high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to
   1st stalk.]
   1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy,
      noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive
      pronoun. --Shak.

            Into the chamber he stalked him full still.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's
            fiend, Pressing to be employed.       --Dryden.

   2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
      approaching game; to proceed under clover.

            The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led
            horse; . . . ``I must stalk,'' said he. --Bacon.

            One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
                                                  --Drayton.

   3. 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.

            With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
                                                  --Dryden.

            Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean.
                                                  --Addison.

            I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he
            has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Mericale.

Stalk \Stalk\, n. [OE. stalke, fr. AS. st[ae]l, stel, a stalk.
   See {Stale} a handle, {Stall}.]
   1. (Bot.)
      (a) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of
          wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
      (b) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

   2. That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a
      quill. --Grew.

   3. (Arch.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling
      the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices
      spring.

   4. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.]

            To climd by the rungs and the stalks. --Chaucer.

   5. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and
          crinoids.
      (b) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a
          hymenopterous insect.
      (c) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

   6. (Founding) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core
      to strengthen it; a core arbor.

   {Stalk borer} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a noctuid moth
      ({Gortyna nitela}), which bores in the stalks of the
      raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other
      garden plants, often doing much injury.

Source : WordNet®

stalk
     n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
          stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
          [syn: {chaff}, {husk}, {shuck}, {straw}, {stubble}]
     2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or
        fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: {stem}]
     3: a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush
        [syn: {stalking}, {still hunt}]
     4: the act of following prey stealthily [syn: {stalking}]
     5: a stiff or threatening gait [syn: {angry walk}]
     v 1: walk stiffly
     2: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
        "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother
        haunted her" [syn: {haunt}]
     3: go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for
        deer"