Stalk

Definitions

1. The stem or main axis of a plant.
2. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
3. A haughty style of walking.
4. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
5. The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
6. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
7. An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
8. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
9. A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
10. The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
11. The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
12. An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
13. Informally, a construction which generalizes that of the notion of the ring of germs of functions near a point to the context of arbitrary sheaves. Formally, given a sheaf ℱ on a space X, and a point x in X, the direct limit of the sections of F on the open neighborhoods of x ordered by reverse inclusion. See Stalk (sheaf) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
14. The penis.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats;  the stalks of maize or hemp”

“Three chairs of the steamer type⟳, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like⟳ withered elfin limbs.”

“grape stalks”

“they appear⟳ to be made up of little Bladders , like⟳ those in the Plume or Stalk of a Quill”

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

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