To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy,
noiseless manner; – sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
approaching game; to proceed under clover.

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to
strengthen it; a core arbor.

The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous
insect.

An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk
of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye,
or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a
quill.

The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.