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STALKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk
Example:
a pedunculate barnacle is attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk
Synonyms:
pedunculate; stalked
Classified under:
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stalk
Context examples:
And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When the young leader lay in the snow and moved no more, One Eye stalked over to the she-wolf.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, "I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He placed his pack on the ground and stalked them as a cat stalks a sparrow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king,—king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Death stalked everywhere, and it was only a matter of time when some one of those many huge seas would fall upon the boat, roll over it, and pass on.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He stalked the quarry and found it to be a porcupine, standing upright against a tree and trying his teeth on the bark.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A moment was allowed for the first thrill to subside, then Hugo, the villain, stalked in with a clanking sword at his side, a slouching hat, black beard, mysterious cloak, and the boots.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Just before school closed, Jo appeared, wearing a grim expression as she stalked up to the desk, and delivered a letter from her mother, then collected Amy's property, and departed, carefully scraping the mud from her boots on the door mat, as if she shook the dust of the place off her feet.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room. It wasn't a bit funny. Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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