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eye-stalk

eye-stalk is the alternative form of eyestalk.

Verb

eye-stalk (third-person singular simple present eye-stalks, present participle eye-stalking, simple past and past participle eye-stalked)

  1. (herding) (Of working dogs) To intensely stare to intimidate and control livestock.
    • I'd play cribbage with the herders and Jane would push the sheep to the top of the mesa, picking up the strays as she eye-stalked-chased (worried) the stragglers.2002, Coppinger, Raymond =, Dogs : a new understanding of canine origin, behavior, and evolution, page 212
  2. (broadly) To look at someone in an evaluating or scrutinizing manner.
    • The private eye stalked the surgeon for several months but always seemed to be one step behind.1993, Flemming, Laraine E, chapter 8, in Reading for Results, page 390
    • Micah shifted restlessly as he silently eye-stalked the people who had crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral.2006, Rhodes, Evie, Criss Cross, page 74

Meaning of eyestalk

Noun

eyestalk (plural eyestalks)

  1. A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.
    Synonyms:
    ommatophore

Forms of eye-stalk

Noun
pluraleye-stalks
Verb
third-person singular presenteye-stalks
present participleeye-stalking
past participleeye-stalked
pasteye-stalked

Questions about eye-stalk

What does eye-stalk mean?
Eye-stalk means (Of working dogs) To intensely stare to intimidate and control livestock.
What is eye-stalk the alternative form of?
Eye-stalk is the alternative form of eyestalk.
What part of speech is eye-stalk?
Eye-stalk is a verb.
What is the past tense of eye-stalk?
The past tense of eye-stalk is eye-stalked.

Words near eye-stalk in the dictionary

  1. eye-sex
  2. eye-shade
  3. eye-shades
  4. eye-socket
  5. eye-sockets
  6. eye-stalk
  7. eye-stalks
  8. eye-strain
  9. eye-string
  10. eye-strings
  11. eye-stripe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-stalk (page history and authors); eyestalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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