(n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.(n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.(n.) The stem or main axis of a plant as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats the stalks of maize or hemp.i.) To walk slowly and cautiously to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner - sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.(n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.(n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.(n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it a core arbor.