Stalk

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