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, v. t.
Defn: 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.
Defn: 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.
STALKED
Stalked, a.
Defn: Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle
(Zoöl.), a goose barnacle, or anatifer; — called also stalk
barnacle.
— Stalked crinoid (Zoöl.), any crinoid having a jointed stem.
STALKER
Stalk"er, n.
1. One who stalks.