Word Meaning

Meaning of "stalk" and the crossword clue

- Creepy person
- Flower part
- Plant stem
- Pursue relentlessly
- Stem
- Walk pompously
- The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
- That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
- An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
- To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
- 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.
- To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
- A high, proud, stately step or walk.