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▸ noun: The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
▸ noun: Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
▸ noun: (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
▸ noun: One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
▸ noun: (zoology)
▸ noun: A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
▸ noun: The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
▸ noun: The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
▸ noun: (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
▸ noun: (mathematics, sheaf theory) 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
▸ verb: (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
▸ verb: (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
▸ verb: (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
▸ noun: A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
▸ noun: The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To walk haughtily.
▸ noun: A haughty style of walking.
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